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'.
Face it... We are dinosaurs and we were here first. FR doesn’t need to copy X or any other site. We’re one of the oldest and most enduring conservative political forums ever. Now just embrace that and be proud that you’re a part of it.
You’re welcome.
Relevant how? To what or whom?
Personally I appreciate it as a modern version of the morning newspaper. It offers a good selection of news and general interest matter, digestible in one sitting. Which is fine as long as the news isn't so depressing that you don't feel like getting up and actually doing something about it.
It may not be here much longer, depending on the election results and the thinning patience of the left for 1A activity by the sheeple.
Meanwhile, can you elucidate about "relevance?"
I would in a heartbeat
Tbh
I hsve been here since 1998. Spend a lot of time here.
I go to x for media and update but I don’t subscribe.
Fr needs new blood. It needs to be able to post memes and pictures easily. That is the only way to attract new people.
Fb is evolving into local cleaned up news sites. Town news.
And interest groups. Sweet nice interest groups.
Pacifying
Use a blocker for Pete’s sake! I get no ads or pop-ups. Brave and a blocker does it all
Ghostery
“Fr needs ... to be able to post memes and pictures easily.”
That would be helpful.
Agreed but a bit of change would be useful.
What happens is conservatives all each have comments and each one wants to be a forum. Atomized conservative thought and less effective.
With some tweaking fr could provide a forum for all conservative commentary. In a glorious unlimited thread format.
Audio and podcast too? A grown up brother to X. ?
The look and feel should never change. The functionality needs overhauling.
FR is Usenet with fewer trolls and flame wars.
So much divisiveness coming from you. After being here since 2001. Shameful, noob.
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And with almost no character limit (X imposes a 280-character limit for each tweet), and very judicious moderation. And bookmark and or save such with formatting in a document.
And with no ads.
Quora has its benefits, but sanctions vulgarity.
One find far better analysis on FR than elsewhere. However, there is one simple feature that would re-invigorate FR for me at least - and that’s thumbs-up/down buttons with counters for each posting.
If there was a way to post pictures and graphics easily I’m sure there would be more folks posting. I figured it out after several years. I go to imgbb.com to upload my images and snag the html tag. Now It’s easier for me, but having the ability on this platform would be awesome.
Indeed. Which is suicidal. Along with radical isolationists, who imagine (among other things) letting the Houtis (via Iran) radically increase insurance costs on shipping does not effect them. And devout Putin protectors, vs. objectivity.
Now, having said that I will agree that most Freepers have no idea on how to access current videos on x.com but that’s another problem for another day
Not being able to post/play short videos here is a negative, while via just play on my X feed. Almost all are not worthy to share, or even watch.
All due to the decline of basic Bible Christianity, along with the deleterious use of smartphones to access information, and the advance and seduction of an pervasive, perverse, persuasive media.
Oh my goodness were you here for the utter discourse of the 2016 primary the Cruz vs Trump supporters it was RABID!! The Covid discourse was bad AND the whole Russia Ukraine war discourse has also been pretty darn bad HOWEVER this is what free speech and debate is supposed to be!! The entire country has become more divided than ever, WHY would it be any different on FR???
Name me 3 things that any news aggregator forum does better.
You likely have a ad blocker, as I do, but I just checked Fox News and there were over 250 network requests (open page, then in Firefox hit F12 key and then Network then F5 then see Requests on bottom left) in about a minute. FR: 4.
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