[ken in texas]

FR runs pretty clean and lean, but I wonder if there are some features that could be ‘turned off’ on nights like last night.

Some years back there were some performance problems. We have the option of choosing displays of 20 / 50 / 100 / 250 items and I recall John putting in a change to cap it at 25 for the duration.

I don't know what the bottleneck is but last night was frustrating, and I finally gave up veiwing the live thread.

[EBH]

At any rate it isn't going to be fixed for the next 3 big events. Debate #2 and #3 and election night.

I would think between FReepers we could work something out with the yahoo alternative account or even those FReepers on FB using FB to recap and update coverage for these upcoming live thread events.

Whoever is starting the live thread that evening should include links to the alternatives in the first post. Smart FReepers will bookmark them in the event FR is unavailable.