I'd rather that they fix it so it can't happen in the first place. With the money they raise obviously going to salaries instead of coding they could at least ask for volunteer coders to fix it for them. There are plenty of talented web designers who are members. Ask them for help.
We do not know how expensive it is to keep a site as this going, and it is far better (based on my experience) than any in its class despite lacking some things, like a edit feature and toolbar to format html with (but there is the Cynwoody Free Republic Posting Form Enhancer for Firefox). I will much rather peruse FR than the likes of Gateway Pundit, with its approx 200 network requests (FR has 3).