Posted on 09/13/2024 7:53:27 PM PDT by week 71
Okay Free Republic has been the best place for libertarian and conservative ideas for decades. And truly my place to post and view comments.
X is more evolved and many also love that forum. Any suggestions that could keep FR relevant. It seems it will be a 'dinosaur' of the 90's if nothing changes.
To be clear - FR is truly the best website. Simply stating it may be gone soon - 'can't fence time and change'.
I read a lot of conservative sites every day. Free Republic is still the best.
Someone above said they don’t post as much as they used to, and I’ve never posted much. I think that in the last several years we have lost a lot of posters, either through folks returning to their heavenly home or other reasons. And I think encouraging people to post more would help FR.
One reason I have not posted is that I know there are sites we can’t post extracts from and maybe some we can’t post from at all. I would love it if someone could do a short how-too that new posters could follow. I know it would help me, and maybe some others.
yes FR is a treasure as it is. long may it wave. i hope it doesn’t change too much.
it’s a true public square. strikes a pretty good balance between individual, ethical free speech and a common sense, conservative American culture of need to know, and can do information. sure there’s some duplication, but the format makes it easy to deal with that. it’s also a good ‘market place of ideas’ to acquire a broad, and brawling (if you want to test yourself) knowledge of the spiritual, the profane, the technical, the evil, the good, the truth, and the many varied interests, point of views, and ideas of the posters and commenters here.
obviously. seems some have missed the point of the discussion.
I’ve never seen a pop-up on either Breitbart or Fox News. Are you the last person in the world not using some form of ad blocking?
Like your comment. Truly
Content is king. Yes, there are times that I wish I could edit my posts after the fact, or use italics and post pictures without using HTML, but FR is a lean machine with no advertising or tracking.
Somewhat akin to an original VW Beetle’s setup, or even a Lotus Super 7 . . . light, even if it overheats sometimes.
Drudge would still be a major website before it sold out. It STILL has the same plain look, just with more ad trackers.
Sometimes a limitation IS a feature. The original iteration of Twitter was 180 character posts. Make it limitless, and you risk winding up with MySpace. I don’t use X so it may have changed since that iteration, but the limits and simplicity is a selling point.
Few of these sites feel like they are part of one man’s vision. FR is very much JimRob’s electronic living room, and this conservative, traditionally minded Catholic feels like a welcome guest, enjoying the company of Lutherans, Jews, Evangelicals, Calvinists, Seculars, etc. because of the environment JimRob fosters, including QAnon, Stuned Beebers, Freeper Canteen, Random Pop Music postings, and NFL Picks.
I also like that F-bombs are not generally tolerated.
I finally became a paid subscriber to X after watching Musk explain why he wants paid subscribers. Basically, to put an end once and for all to all the BOT BS.
I think Zuck realizes that. Facebook is lame. They have the marketplace but that's about it. Why would anybody want to hang out over there?
no, i understood you fine
i come here because of what it is, not what it isn’t...
You are right.
The pro ukraine war folks (neo-cons) are here pretty thick.
Perhaps they will move the the DU like Cheney and Romney.
here’s hoping.
Are there any bots here on Free Republic? There are some posters who put up messages which are written a garbled syntax, and if you ask them questions, they never respond.
Okay. So do I. And will continue to do so.
Are you having trouble with the List? [I know that it's kind of long]
A short how-to to posting articles?
Give me a general description, and I'll flesh something out for you and others.
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Uh oh...not one beautiful girl on “X” has approached me. What am I doing wrong?
Class of ‘98. Jumped from a link on Drudge to here and never left. After Rush passed, I signed off on all broadcast media including Fox. FR is my go to site in the morning and before I shut down at night with FREEquent refreshing in between.
They aren’t bots.
They are just stupid...................
More people would post stories if they didn’t have to jump through hoops to do it. Their search engine doesn’t work. I have to use Bing search. It would be nice to have an edit button. Bring back the views per post. Most importantly, stop the censuring.
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