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Let the Free Republic site create the Title, Author, Date, and Source, given the Source URL
vanity | January 9, 2022 | me

Posted on 01/09/2022 5:57:58 AM PST by karpov

I'd like the ability to post by entering only the Source URL, clicking a button and having software populate the entries of Title, Author, Date Published, and Source. The user would still supply Topics and Keywords (if any). This would be optional -- the user could still fill out the fields as is done now.

It's good to have diversity of sites. Free Republic is text-heavy, which makes it easy and fast to scan many posts. But I do think the suggested feature would make it easier to use, like Reddit, where if you enter a URL, it generates a title.


TOPICS: Focus Software
KEYWORDS: diy; learnhowtopost; vanity; whiner
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To: AAABEST

You didn’t get your pony?


21 posted on 01/09/2022 6:19:17 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Dusty Road
After what Photobucket did to it’s users (holding photo’s hostage) I never again allowed that to happen.

I bought my own web space from Hostgator. I dump my photos there, and they are under my control. I also have my own URL. So for $100/year plus $20 or so for the URL name I do my own third party hosting.
22 posted on 01/09/2022 6:19:52 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: karpov

As a domain owner and developer I’m not sure you understand how much work this would be to implement. And there is always the problem with the URL not accurately representing the true title that software cannot fix.

The current format is not that much effort... Everyone wants electric windows and cars that do all the thinking and effort for them... One extra copy and paste isn’t really backbreaking effort.


23 posted on 01/09/2022 6:20:19 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: foreverfree

Same here. Leave it the way it is.


24 posted on 01/09/2022 6:21:55 AM PST by ducttape45
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
You might as well be wishing for parking assist on a K car.

Yup, though FR is better than a K-Car. No Catalytic Converter, no tracking/recording devices, minimal restraints. You just have to deal with carburetor and points yourself.
25 posted on 01/09/2022 6:22:16 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: karpov

the survival rate of people who held their breath waiting for programming updates to this site is zero


26 posted on 01/09/2022 6:24:21 AM PST by thoughtomator
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To: Dr. Sivana

Well done... I did the same over ten years ago. Got unlimited premium for the same price. I can add as many subdomain sites as I like, such as file sharing/storage sites and have my own secure email server to boot.

I kept getting “If you don’t like it go make your own”. So I did... lol :)


27 posted on 01/09/2022 6:26:09 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: karpov

FR is just fine the way it is


28 posted on 01/09/2022 6:26:13 AM PST by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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To: AppyPappy

No!

But you’re much easier to get along with, so I can see why you’d get yours first.


29 posted on 01/09/2022 6:26:43 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I believe the software is older than 20. I remember clearly browsing FR in the early 90’s


30 posted on 01/09/2022 6:31:46 AM PST by Bayard
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To: karpov
🤣

31 posted on 01/09/2022 6:33:10 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: frogjerk

“Amen. also, more to fix and more expensive if all of these bells and whistles don’t work. “

Yes, less complications means less to break. I don’t mind hand crank windows at all, in fact I prefer them.


32 posted on 01/09/2022 6:33:35 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: karpov

I second that emotion. It’s a bit of a pain posting an article in FR.


33 posted on 01/09/2022 6:33:54 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: karpov

What’s a Reddit?


34 posted on 01/09/2022 6:34:07 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This could be a future Undead Thread...


35 posted on 01/09/2022 6:34:55 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Bayard

There was a rewrite upgrade somewhere in there.


36 posted on 01/09/2022 6:37:13 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Yup.. but, I DO remember something we used to have that is no longer here.. How many times a thread has been read...


37 posted on 01/09/2022 6:38:59 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: karpov; Jim Robinson; John Robinson

Hi.

Good to FReepmail or ping the owners. I believe they have a suggestion box.

5.56mm


38 posted on 01/09/2022 6:39:16 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Bayard

You clearly remember more than Jim Robinson. Who began this site in 1996.

https://freerepublic.com/home.htm


39 posted on 01/09/2022 6:41:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: karpov

I’d like a post edit/delete button pretty please?


40 posted on 01/09/2022 6:41:49 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative (My goal in life is to be the person my dogs think I am)
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