[Fresh Wind]

I would make these suggestions:

Formalize the concept of the “live thread”.

In a live thread, cut the page size from 50 to 25 posts since most of the traffic is from people refreshing the page to see new posts.

Eliminate the preview feature, or at least set the default for the “I have already previewed...” box to the checked state.

And, to eliminate duplicate posts, block a user for a short period after posting, maybe for one minute. That will eliminate strings of resends from mobile devices that aren’t getting responses as quickly as they want.

It might also be helpful to limit refreshes to one per minute as well.

Do these things, and I believe the response time will be much better.

[MestaMachine]

The problem was not Free Republic. Here was the problem and it was exactly the same as the last debate. This time I grabbed snapshots.

The first bottleneck was PSINet. The second was Verio.

[deks]

If Obama is an empty chair, then Biden is the whoopee cushion.

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Like the tag line :)

Re: “Live Thread”...those are interesting suggestions. I’ve always been interested in how the forum software works. Good luck up there in Pennsylvania on Nov 6!