[Behind Liberal Lines]

This site is running the same software it did 20 years ago. You might as well be wishing for parking assist on a K car.

[FreedomPoster]

LOL, great summary!

[ratzoe]

This site is running the same software it did 20 years ago. You might as well be wishing for parking assist on a K car.

^ That..

[Responsibility2nd]

Close the thread. Nothing more could be said. Nothing better could be said.

[Textide]

And doing it well, I might add. I subscribe to a citation site called BibMe.org to quickly cite web sources in APA format. For the most part it's able to scrape most of that data from most websites. Some of the sites simply don't organize their articles with Title, Author, Published Date, etc in an easy to grab format. I think it would be asking a lot for FR to solve this problem for something that takes posters 30 seconds to type out manually. Besides, any code that's written must be maintained through various updates and security patches. These changes can break things at times. The more code there is, the more work is required to monitor and maintain. FR is simple and efficient. Speeding up initial post times with such a feature wouldn't add much to it in my opinion.

[rlmorel]

Hehehehe...my dad had one of those, the one that would say to the hilarity of everyone except the person who heard it a gazillion times “The door is ajar.” in that weird voice.

And someone would invariably say “It’s a DOOR, not a JAR!” and everyone would roll their eyes in humor at hearing it again...:)

My brother nicknamed the car “Einstein” and it stuck!

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[Bayard]

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

[Bikkuri]

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

[dinodino]

You nailed it.

[TomGuy]

This site is running the same software it did 20 years ago.

By popular demand.

A few attempts to change the website years ago did not go over well. Too many things got messed up. Many DEMANDED it be left alone. [Including me!]

If one wants fancy, there are plenty of other websites. Don't mess with what HAS worked for 20 years.

[BiglyCommentary]

This site is running the same software it did 20 years ago.

As best as I can remember from a weekend phone conversation with Jim while the site was down in ~1999, that was Sun server running Sun OS, Informix DB, lots of perl, and Apache Tomcat caching front ends.

[daniel1212]

" This site is running the same software it did 20 years ago. You might as well be wishing for parking assist on a K car. "

A fitting reply. Bu the OP is only a 2 year-old poster here, a relative newbie. I think changing the software would result in more complaints due to other changes.

[roving]

Makes one wonder where all that money goes that is donated.