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I think I am out of here, to go the way of most all former FReepers whom I never see anymore. Accessing FR takes now 30 minute blocks of time grinding through to connect at all, to access any article, then to post, to convert it to “send”, so it’s insane to behave as if this is okay. It is not.

It has become a lack of respect for a customer base and since I am not a glutton for punishment, nor a fool to endure this, so to pay for it has become ridiculous. Self respect comes in to play eventually, even through my love for the Robinsons’ and for all of you.

Gotta go call and stop the draft to FR, so at least I can lurk when FR is occasionally up.

I think I am out of here, to go the way of most all former FReepers whom I never see anymore.

I'm sorry to hear that, RitaOK. I certainly share your frustration, but would humbly ask you to take a minute and try to think about things from the Robinson's perspective.

As someone who works on one of the largest scale web applications in the world, I can tell you that it's a lot harder to write a high scale web application right than it is to write it wrong. It can also be quite expensive.

I don't know any of the details behind the problems that FR is having. I suspect they are struggling with some decisions that were made early in the development of the software that to change now will require an almost total rewrite.

What I do know is that the Robinson's are fantastic individuals, and that they do care about the experience that the users have on the site here. Personally, I'll stay on FR until they wheel me out the door and plant me in the ground. I do, however, want to have some contingency plans (hence this thread). I suggest you take a similar approach and not give up completely on FR.

I have the same lag time issue. But other FReepers I mentioned that to don't.

My problem seemed to start after I added a Card Reader to my pc, which I did one day when FR was down. So I don't know what the problem is.

But yeah, it can be irritating. I edit and preview a LOT so it can take me a 1/2 hour for one post with the lag time issue.

All other websites connect just fine for me. Odd.