It could be the pictures of David Cassidy on your FReeper page driving them away! lol just kidding! I must admit I use to watch that show and I hated Danny the little runt.
I think people are just lurking now, trying to stay out of the fire until it cools down to their liking again. I did this Alexa graph and FreeRepublic.com's traffic rating is up. The funny thing I noticed though was the correlation between the DU'er site and this one. Call me crazy but the graph shows a lot of the same waves. Were they coming here in mass to disrupt? who knows but I found it interesting anyway.
I will donate as soon as I pay some bills.