Posted on 07/12/2017 12:48:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Re John being off the grid, and you being worried. As parents we do that forever.
One of our younger relatives will be taking a 4 day break from instant communication, starting tomorrow.
He calls his wife or texts her twice a day with a sat phone.
If any of us stop breathing, we are to be kept on ice until he gets back. Since, he isn’t a medical doctor, he is worthless in true emergencies. 911 works.
Hopefully, he will be decompressed and has taken out some wild pigs/hogs.
The only way I got a sidebar was to set comments to header instead of text. Don’t like it but it did help with the issue.
Now it all works & I’m using my phone but the laptop wasn’t. Interesting.
Still have not heard from John, but it seems to be running full speed again. It ran deathly slow sat & sun then back to full speed on monday so thought John had fixed it... until it crapped out again today.
Yes, it’s been running well today, but over the weekend it was terrible.
I adjusted my preferences to your recommendation, Mr. Robinson anyway, it’s okay with me either way.
Sending prayers. Thanks for everything you both do.
Not sure what happened but the forum is back up to speed even with my settings at 50/50 threads/per page.
One must wonder if someone isn’t messing with it. If so; I sure hope there’s a way to identify whom but the hackers today can make it look like the Russians did it but it was someone in N. Korea or downtown Toledo, OH.
The freakin’ Internet is such a wonderful thing but sadly it comes at a cost and prone to abuse.
It has been this way for almost as long as it has been widely used.
I won't.
but I am beginning to think he is in over his head.
I am beginning, I take that back, I am now completely convinced that after NINE years here, you are too ignorant to have the details explained to you.
I want to repeat every word you just posted frnewsjunkie. Thank you Jim. Thank you John.
Praying for good news about John.
Everything else is trivial - this is a commentary website, not crucial to life and limb.
Prayers sent for the health, safety and security of John Robinson. There are many elements of the vile, evil liberal left that would like to see you and John, along with Free Republic, totally destroyed. May God’s Angels protect you both.
Worth repeating yet again.
I for one am sick of the whining about the performance of this site. As much as I love this site and spend quite a bit of time here -- it is a political web site on the internet. If one cannot deal with its occasional ups and downs -- then get a life. Go fishing. Spend time with your love ones. Hey this is a radical idea. Actually spend time interacting with real living people!!
Same here. I doubt very much that the system came back up to speed on its own. Either someone tweeked it (John?) or the problem was not with us but a broader issue clogging the net in the vicinity of San Jose. It would be nice (and encouraging) to have an answer and not just speculation that it was hackers at work.
And on a personal level, I hope Jim has heard from John.
George Soros financed Cyber Attack
DNC/Liberal Media financed Cyber Attack
Obama NSA Cyber Attack
Hillary Clinton Financed Cyber Attack
Some Left Wing group working on a Cyber Attack of FR.
I think it might be possible.
I am not sure if it is likely.
Maybe there should be a setting for a minimum of 10 and 10 in lieu of 20 and 20... Just a thought.
Aren't many of us old-timers just that? ;-)
-PJ
Mine comes thru Verizon and Internet Explorer.
John, call your parents. They worry.
Jim,
I don’t know where to report other website problems so, with apologies, I’ll piggyback on this thread:
I have always encountered numerous editing problems when composing a FR response using my iPhone. I do not encounter these problems on other sites.
Rather than try to define how the touch screen cursor is supposed to respond to various taps and gestures, and what works and doesn’t work on FR, I’ll just list a few of the most frustrating problems I encounter here but not on other sites, and hope that John will know what may be causing it.
1) when trying to correct a word or sentence, I am often unable to place the cursor exactly where I want in order to use the back arrow. Instead, I either get the whole word highlighted in blue, or the cursor at the end of the word. A tap and hold does not always bring up the magnifier that allows one to drag the cursor.
2) swiping up and down scrolls the entire page, even when I swipe on the text entry window. This often makes it near impossible to scroll within the text entry window to access hidden areas of text. Sometimes clicking Done to hide the keyboard a few times and shrinking (pinching) the view makes it possible to scroll just the text entry content, but it’s tricky.
3) If I’m in the middle of composing a response, and I need to temporarily put the FR posting page in the background to look something up, answer a call, or whatever, there’s a high probability (at least 50/50) that when I return everything I’ve typed will have disappeared.
None of this is earth shattering of course, but I thought I’d report it in case it’s a simple fix.
Thanks
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