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Posted on 07/09/2017 11:40:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Woo hoo!! Our 3rd qtr FReepathon is underway!! Please keep those donations coming in.
Drain the swamp and Make America Great Again!!
Prayers up for continuing progress and success.
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Make it a Monthly if you can. We have some very generous FReeper sponsors kicking in an extra ten bucks for every New Monthly signed up. And we have 2 new monthly donors signed up so far this quarter!!
Or send in a hundred dollars or more per quarter and join I_be_tc's growing list of 300 Club patriots. I_be_tc sends in $100 per quarter and challenges 300 others to do the same. If we could get 300 FReepers to send in $100 per quarter, these FReepathons would complete much faster. And we have received 25 donations of $100 or more so far this quarter!!
Thank you all very much!!
God bless.
I can’t sign-in on my laptop computer because damn ole Microsoft’s Windows 10 goes directly to “sign-in” after I’ve typed only 2 of 13 letters in my password, thus preventing me from accessing the Internet.
I’ll have to wait for my brilliant Granddaughter, Jordan to get off work at 4:00PM to try to fix it for me.
It’s always something.
I see that FR IS MOVING SLOW AGAIN TODAY! I’ll wager we already have an idiot vanity thread about it, right?
Thank you very much, PROCON!! Go, Trump!! MAGA!!
I can’t sign-in on my laptop computer because damn ole Microsoft’s Windows 10 goes directly to “sign-in” after I’ve typed only 2 of 13 letters in my password, thus preventing me from accessing the Internet.
I’ll have to wait for my brilliant Granddaughter, Jordan to get off work at 4:00PM to try to fix it for me.
It’s always something.
I see that FR IS MOVING SLOW AGAIN TODAY! I’ll wager we already have an idiot vanity thread about it, right?
Don’t know why the slow response time. It seems to spin forever after clicking, but when it finally connects it loads ok. There’s a light load on the system, we’re like 97% idle on the CPU. Could be having a problem at the frontend or routers or perhaps a DOS attack or something? Have called and left messages for John, but have not heard back yet.
Yes, there have been a couple of vanities about the slowdown and they are not idiotic, they are the truth. The site has been slow for months with no mention of improving it’s performance. Question, why does FR have to go down before anything is done to repair it, when there is plenty of evidence it is ailing and failing?The FReepathons are taking the whole quarter to complete, do you think the above might be a clue as to why? FR is slowly losing it’s base, members are finding other venues to spend their time. If not fixed properly, I would not doubt that it will soon fall into the dustbin of history.
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Well, if we’re heading for the dustbin, I’d like to first thank the Lord for providing the last 21 years of solutions to the many problems we’ve encountered along the way.
We are just a couple of programmers doing what probably never should have been attempted. Every business expert will tell you that you should never start a business with no capital and no prior expertise in the specific field. John and I both had lots of experience in programming and he had some on the internet, but I had none. And neither of us had any experience whatsoever in politics or media.
John had some experience in operating a bbs when he was a teenager, but the only experience I had with online discussion groups was as a three year user on Prodigy. And I had already proven that I was the world’s worst manager when my 9 year old successful software company that I had just taken public on NASDAQ in 1995 was failing only a year or so later.
By that time John had been urging me for a couple years to get on the internet. It also happens that I was getting very frustrated with Prodigy at that time. It was basically a “private” discussion group in that you had to be a paying customer to gain access and it was on a private computer service not the internet. I figured we would get a lot more exposure in our efforts to fight government corruption if we could get a discussion group going on the internet.
I looked around on the internet in the ‘95-96 time frame, but could not find a political forum other than email usenet groups and could not find any workable forum software packages off the shelf. So, I saw an open niche and dived in with no planning and no capital and no experience in the field and no proven marketing or management skills.
We programmed and started FR as a hobby and it just kinda took off from there on its own after the good Lord hooked us up with a great group of patriots who provided us with all we needed to continue building and keep it going.
I have no technical knowledge whatsoever, but John had and has the expertise to build our original server system and he has expanded and rebuilt it several times over the years. We are now at the point of trying to decide whether to rebuild our plant again or just go with the flow to the cloud. There are obvious advantages to both and perhaps some not so obvious disadvantages.
But rest assured that, God willing, we will be doing something soon.
But we still have no capital and no support staff and we’re still saddled with the world’s worst manager (me).
Praying the Lord is still smiling down upon us and continues showing us the way.
Praying with you!
Praying with you all also!
We at the ranch have been lurking about FR since sometime in 2001 when Lucy T told us about you all. Joined up as a posting member on my birthday in 2004, so been around here for awhile now.
I just want to say IF we had the financial status that would allow us to super fund Free Republic we’d do it without hesitation. It’s a great site with some of the best folks on the internet participating. We’d like to see FR continue forever, therefore we shall continue to support FR as best we can as long as the good lord allows us to remain participants in such mortal activity.
God bless Free Republic, and that of course means Jim, and John Robinson, and everybody doing their best to make this site the success it is.
Believe me, your hobby has been an inspiration and a true Godsend for over two decades. Sometimes you've held it together with spit, duct tape and baling wire, but the important thing is we're still here.
If the day comes when it's time to hang it up, you have already exceeded expectations. Thank you and God bless!
Thank you very much, MEG33!!
Woo hoo!!
And this just in:
$50.00 monthly from Massachusetts
$50.00 from Colorado
$20.00 from Never Never Land
$50.00 from Luxembourg
$10.00 from New York
$20.00 from California
$10.00 monthly from Arizona
Thank you all very much!!
FReepers are the absolute greatest!!
God bless.
Thank you very much, MEG33!!
Yes Jim, I am right there with you and hope FR is around for many years to come, but, something has to be done. It has become very frustrating to many FReepers, some with limited time on their hands that want to check in for the latest breaking news or to briefly respond to another poster. For us retired folks, yes, we have lots of spare time and it still gets frustrating waiting for pages to load, especially during some crisis or blockbuster headline. Just a suggestion and no offense meant to John, whatever the problem is, maybe a troubleshooter from outside could diagnose the problem. Sometimes all it takes is a second set of eyes. Thanks again Jim for letting me sound off.
Thank you very much, jazusamo!!
Thank you very much, rockinqsranch!!
Thank you very much, deoetdoctrinae!! Go, FReepers!!
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