[cyclotic]

Perhaps a $20,000 donation will help.

For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. It’s not gunked up with ads and cutesy boxes and pop ups. It’s merely information.

[foreverfree]

For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. It’s not gunked up with ads and cutesy boxes and pop ups. It’s merely information.

I agree, and FR as it is makes it easy relative to some boards to track responses to your posts.

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[foreverfree]

For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. It’s not gunked up with ads and cutesy boxes and pop ups. It’s merely information.

I agree, and FR as it is makes it easy relative to some boards to track responses to your posts.

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[karpov]

I agree with you. My suggestion would make it easier to post but would not change the appearance of the site for readers.

[Leaning Right]

> For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. <

Agreed. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

[frogjerk]

For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. It’s not gunked up with ads and cutesy boxes and pop ups. It’s merely information.

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

[cuban leaf]

And modern browsers allow you to add emoji graphics. 😎

[AnotherUnixGeek]

For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. It’s not gunked up with ads and cutesy boxes and pop ups. It’s merely information.

This. It's 30 seconds of work to enter the author, date, etc. by ourselves if we want to bring an article to the attention of others here and get their views on it. It's not a big deal, and any software that would try to do it for you would need to download and scan your article, parse it, extract the relevant data - would be error-prone and lots of implementation work for something you can do easily.

And needless features like "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" on posts are what help make most social media so toxic. No thanks. If you like or don't like what someone else posted, take the time to tell them why instead of hitting some icon.

[metmom]

For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. It’s not gunked up with ads and cutesy boxes and pop ups. It’s merely information.

I love the formatting.

It is the most user friendly and easiest to follow a conversation website I have yet found.

It tells you which post you are replying to, who you are replying to, you can view other replies to the same comment, every word on the website is a link that takes you somewhere, and you can follow the conversation back or forward very easily.

And I HATE avatars. I am thrilled that FR does not have them.

[daniel1212]

You mean you do not miss up to 500 network requests:

FR latest articles (see @ requests on top right: click on image to enlarge) :

Versus

[sauropod]

+1

[SamAdams76]

For me, I love the simplicity of Free Republic. It’s not gunked up with ads and cutesy boxes and pop ups. It’s merely information.

Same here. Free Republic is still Internet 1.0.

The only improvement I wish for is embedded video, otherwise it's perfect.

[MayflowerMadam]

“I love the simplicity of Free Republic.”

Agree. It’s easy to follow conversations — prior posts and later replies. I avoid other sites because you’ll read someone’s post but have no idea what he’s responding to.

Simplicity.