Recent Changes to Free Republic

[John Robinson]

What do you think? Suggestions, comments, complaints?

[restornu]

Go to the top of your task bar file, edit, view etc. and look for view and open scroll down until you see text size for adjustments.

[TomGuy]

Go to the top of your task bar file, edit, view etc. and look for view and open scroll down until you see text size for adjustments.

That is nice in theory, but it does not work.

As I stated, changing the browser text changes the entire page text. In the old system, the sidebar text was not dependent on the browser text selection.

Now, if I reduce the sidebar text, I get the forum (thread) font size reduced. That makes it difficult to read.

If I increase the forum (thread) font size for the thread, it increases the sidebar text -- making the sidebar text too large for the sidebar size allocation.

The problem may be with whatever 'default' font sizes the FR server uses for the sidebar and for the forums.

[Arrowhead1952]

Do you use the FR home page

http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm

instead of the comments part?

If you use the home page, the links for each fourm are on the left side.

[restornu]

Go to desk top, right click go to

1-right click properties

2-click Appearance

3- Click Advanced

4- click Message box

see font, size this might help!

[TornadoAlley3]

Who is John Robinson?

Free Republic, LLC is a non-commercial, limited liability company founded and operated by Jim Robinson, a private citizen of Fresno California.

[PetroniusMaximus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

[null and void]

There's one guy that posts his in a rectangle. He should be banned.

YMMV

[STARWISE]

See #487

[Arrowhead1952]

See my reply here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981736/posts?page=580#580

I don’t know about Firefox users.

[discostu]

I like it, more modern looking but in the end the old functionality all still seems to be there plus a couple of other niceties.

[restornu]

I always like the “By sender” it was so easy to get a date to see how far I had to go back on my “Sent Items” for something I liked!

[sitetest]

Dear John Robinson,

Thanks for all your efforts, but frankly...

...I don't really like the changes.

But hey, isn't that what conservatism's all about??

;-)

I especially don't like that I can no longer see latest comments by forum. Rather, I can only view all the latest comments all together from all the forums.

Or is there a new way to do that?

Thanks,

sitetest

[McGruff]

Who is John Robinson?

Jim = Captain Kirk

John = Scotty.

[Just another Joe]

Could we get a short synopsis of the changes, at least the cosmetic ones?
For instance, I don't know what the "RSS" does and am hesitant to press it. Many people don't seem to be able to find the "post" link.
Many people don't know what the "Articles", "Comments", and "Activity" links do.

The "Comments" link, at the least, does not belong at the top left.

I don't like the Keywords above the forums and other sidebars. It pushes the breaking news down too far.

I liked the title bar the way it was. It gave the site an immediately recognizable look.

That's enough for a start.

[nygoose]

Does anyone know how to set the default opening page to that it opens with the “Comments” instead of “Articles”, “Activity” or “Full”?

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I have a question. Why is it that the color of the article titles in the breaking news sidebar isn't changing after I've clicked on them and read them? I used to be able to tell at a glance which breaking news items were new when I went to the page because the ones I'd already read were highlighted. This isn't a problem with the regular articles on the left side of the page. The ones I've read are highlighted after I read them.

Thanks!

[TornadoAlley3]

and posters = Klingons :)

[good old days]

I was also wondering about searching by title instead of keyword.

[ßuddaßudd]

Adaptation.

[Arrowhead1952]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:kb2614/