Posted on 05/09/2009 10:08:27 PM PDT by Tzimisce
Most people on Daily Kos are (painfully) aware of Free Republic, the bottomless digital repository of bigotry, authoritarianism and hatred for most other Americans, all wrapped in 90's-era HTML. Usually, sane people who stop by there to check it out, find something utterly appalling within a few minutes of browsing, and close the page, never to return. Thus, there isn't a lot of detailed knowledge of Free Republic on Daily Kos.
One important feature of the site is that it is community-supported through donation drives called "Freepathons." In 2008, Jim Robinson, the site founder, seems to have decided to purge the archives of all but the current and most-recent Freepathon threads. This is a wise decision on his part because you don't have to go back very far to see that Free Republic is struggling to meet its modest fundraising goals.
I use a lot of other forums with up-to-date software. But there is no beating the flexibility here.
On another forum I've tried posting a table. Can't be done. There, here's a table:
Users | Traffic | Profanity | Flexibility | ||
Free Republic | Smart | Massive | Hardly | HTML rocks | |
DU | Dumb | Feeble | F yeah | Who knows? | |
And I say "HURRAY FOR THAT!". I can read FreeRepublic on my handheld, I can load pages on anyone's computer with speed unmatched by the "fancier" formatted blogs.
As far as I'm concerned, FreeRepublic's format is THE BEST for this sort of thing. If FR ever adopts the cluttered, ad-ridden crap formats of these other sites, I'll be reading it a lot less.
LOL! I love it!!!!!
I’m only mostly dead.
Hehe. not as painfully as CBS is, but keep posting BS stories and they'll find out how painful being aware of Free Republic can be.
It’s better than the wild old days where an HTML gaffe could screw up the entire rest of the thread, until somebody posted appropriate tag closes.
Yabut, you’ll NEVER be as old as Gramps!
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Well, especially since I’m not even a grandmother!
I love the format on this site and hope it doesn’t change. As soon as I get hubby’s med bills paid off I look forward to donating. I am sorry to see the folks at DU have such a narrow minded view of FR. Seriously. There is a pretty wide diversity of opinion here, and lots of well thought out posts.
I have seen plenty of posts supportive of Romney and Giuliani, so I find it hard to believe a person is banned if they happen to support either man politically.
Myself, I’d vote for either one were they the nominee.
AND POST IN OUR PAJAMAS!
Oh don’t be such a baby!
LOL!!!
Well then!
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Well, they like green.
The only thing I miss in the FR interface is the ability to edit my own posts after spotting a spelling or grammar error. The immutable nature of a post is sometimes frustrating.
Romney and Giuilani, etc. boosters will get hissed and booed around here, but not banned.
Who is this daily Kook, sounds more like a wicked lib who is trying to start trouble...bet he/she/it or whatever it is lurks, infiltrates and masquerades as a person with a brain...well they should kiss me where the sun don’t shine....
...how a post got into my pajamas I'll never know.
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