Long way to go, still under 2,000 posts.
Among longest FR threads, this was an oldie and a goodie:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759930/posts
I missed that one.
There have been some mega threads here, much much bigger than this one will ever be.
I remember the rally threads for a while there were getting pretty rowdy, but fun, and they’d all hit over 2000.
Shucks, that one's a pup .. try this one ;-)