[Yardstick]

all wrapped in 90's-era HTML

Anyone who would attempt to rag on FR's software is an ignorant ass.

FreeRepublic has the best forum software, bar none. No indented hierarchies or other cumbersome silliness like the lefty forums inflict on their members. FR is pure streamlined elegance. If the job of a forum is to facilate communication between its members, FR wins, big time.

[Brad’s Gramma]

To All The Visiting Moms, Grandmom's, Aunties and Special Ladies in a kid's life...visiting from Daily KOS, etal....




Happy Mother's Day!

[snowsislander]

FreeRepublic has the best forum software, bar none. No indented hierarchies or other cumbersome silliness like the lefty forums inflict on their members. FR is pure streamlined elegance. If the job of a forum is to facilate communication between its members, FR wins, big time.

BBTTT.

So many of the web forums are impossible to read; the indentation schemes can be very odd --- the most annoying for me are the ones that use a tabular layout, and allow each row to have floating width first columns. That means that your eye has to hunt around if you trying to read down the second column. Then there are those with repetitious and silly "avatar" pictures, color schemes that actively work against readability, and a host of other clumsy user interface goofs.

Free Republic's layout is elegant and eminently readable, and facilitates reading a great deal of material in a short period of time.

[paulycy]

If the job of a forum is to facilate communication between its members, FR wins, big time.

Agreed. Simplicity is Genius.