The website that needs to fix this problem is freerepublic.com. If Jim R. can’t afford a fulltime webmaster, he could at least hire a developer for a couple of hours to fix it.
Volunteer your time. Right?
FR is built on proprietary software, and was well ahead of what Microsoft provided when FR was founded.
But the problem being discussed is an encoding issue that requires some level of software engineering — yet another issue that demands financial support. Times are tough. The quarterly FReepathons are going long. And I’m not complaining, but I’m having a hard time making my quarterly obligations.
Despite the encoding issue, We must keep in mind that there have been no recent performance issues. If I’m not mistaken, FR made a recent capital investment in new equipment to support the demand.