As expected, Jim Robinson's site has crashed this morning an hour before the swearing-in ceremony.
I don't know what people expect for a measly $352,000 per year, but apparently not enough bandwidth to host a much larger than expected number of logins. A decade of this same schtick has either taught them nothing, or taught them that there's fundraising grift money in it ("Oh, woe is us - we can't afford the necessary upgrades to our Windows XP Server! And breadsticks.").
Millions of dollars over the years and users still can't even go back in to correct/edit/update postings, either.
What a racket, huh? Hello? Anybody out there?
Happy Inauguration Day, folks.
#1: jeremiad To: Hank Rearden (#0)
jeremiad posted on 2017-01-20 11:40:16 Reply Private Reply
#2: BorisY To: Hank Rearden (#0)
over
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... https://www.facebook.com/groups/26012226159
love
boris
ps
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BorisY posted on 2017-01-20 14:31:38 Reply Private Reply
#3: rlk To: Hank Rearden (#0)
The money has been coming in fast enough. New Freepathons have been starting just as old ones are ending. It's getting to the point where there is a year-round non-stop demand for donations. For weeks, the functioning of the site has been cut back to convince users that there is need for more funds. The result has been a loss of traffic rather than put up with purposeful disfunction and blackmail.
rlk posted on 2017-01-20 14:50:59 Reply Private Reply
#4: Fred Mertz To: Hank Rearden (#0)
Not again.
Fred Mertz posted on 2017-01-20 23:09:11 Reply Private Reply
#5: Liberator To: Hank Rearden (#0)
$352,000 per years. IN-EX-CUSABLE. FR: Still powered by Hamster-Wheel technology, rubber bands, and beer. Some things never change.
Did John Rob apologize and promise to travel to their secret server hideout to replace the dead hamster(s)?
And are Freepers enraged that on THE biggest day in 8 years, Free Republic is pathetically limping on Facebook instead?
I note that a few brown-nosers are pretending that the same chatroom software, circa 1999 that's died every year, TWICE a year, isn't a problem today, bless their hearts. I'm sure those who donate should expect a refund.
Douglas Preidis
11 hrs
FR is down but we are not out....
"Thank you, Jim, for letting me on this Facebook page. I am one of your monthly donors and have been for several years. [So what if I'm eating catfood.]"
Rachelle Smith, Scott Heino, Clyde Boyd and 3 others [sheep] like this.
Jeff Garland
"yes thanks Jim for letting me on too.....would hate to start a thread here and get yell at....hehehe....for starting a personal thread"
Laz A. Mataz 12 hrs
FR is down. Pity, at such a time. Oh well, no worries. DAMN RUSSIANS!
Liberator posted on 2017-01-21 00:06:44 Reply Private Reply
#6: Liberator To: Hank Rearden (#0)
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/freerepublic.com.html
Michael West · 5 April 2016 - 15:46
Perhaps jimrob..described as the ZOTFATHER...on his TWITTER page.....has accidently ZOTTED the servers?? how ironic!!
Liberator posted on 2017-01-21 00:10:56 Reply Private Reply
#7: Liberator To: All (#6)
Nice going, Jimbo.
You've managed to ZOT "Over 400,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic since inception in 1996."
Freeploaders UNITE!!
Liberator posted on 2017-01-21 00:15:11 Reply Private Reply
#8: redleghunter To: Liberator (#7)
redleghunter posted on 2017-01-21 00:16:51 Reply Private Reply
#9: Tooconservative To: Liberator, redleghunter, Hank Rearden (#6)
I wuz slumming around and just noticed this headline at LF.
Did JohnRob pull the plug on the Packard-Bell 486SX server again?
Tooconservative posted on 2017-01-21 15:11:40 Reply Private Reply
#10: A K A Stone To: tooconservative (#9)
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-21 15:46:43 Reply Private Reply
#11: Hank Rearden To: All (#0)
Why the hell do they keep their alleged 'server' so far from home if there's nobody local entrusted to keep the hamster inside the wheel for quick turnarounds? Don't they have electricity where the Robinsons cash their donor checks?
Hank Rearden posted on 2017-01-21 19:12:31 Reply Private Reply
#12: Hondo68 To: tooconservative, RimJob Care (#9)
"You have to pass the freepathon goal, to see what's in it." ~JimRob Pelosi Robinson
Hondo68 posted on 2017-01-21 20:09:01 Reply Private Reply
#13: Deckard To: tooconservative, hondo68, A K A Stone (#9)
It's been what, a day and a half now?
Thanks Stone for running a reliable website on .0001% of Freak Republic's budget.
Deckard posted on 2017-01-21 20:23:35 Reply Private Reply
#14: Vinny To: tooconservative (#9)
Vinny posted on 2017-01-21 22:00:46 Reply Private Reply
#15: Deckard To: Vinny, tooconservative (#14)
"Is anyone buying the Great Crash of the Free Republic, given a yearly infusion of $350K per year? Bahaaaaaa!!!!"
Deckard posted on 2017-01-21 22:03:23 Reply Private Reply
#16: BorisY To: Deckard (#15)
To: PROCON
And I’m cancelling my monthly donations.
For 350k/year you can do better than this.
13 posted on 01/21/2017 9:11:50 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
it's
up
love
boris
BorisY posted on 2017-01-22 00:18:23 Reply Private Reply
#17: redleghunter To: tooconservative (#9)
Missed you. Hope you are back.
redleghunter posted on 2017-01-22 00:28:10 Reply Private Reply
#18: redleghunter To: A K A Stone (#10)
redleghunter posted on 2017-01-22 12:43:33 Reply Private Reply
#19: Tooconservative To: redleghunter, Liberator, all (#17)
Well, I dunno. But who can resist a thread with the old it's-dead-Jim Freepathon scam?
I can't even guess how many threads like that I've was on back at LP and here at LF.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-01-22 12:45:04 Reply Private Reply
#20: Hank Rearden To: Tooconservative (#19)
Yeah, me too. Fun, innit?
Hank Rearden posted on 2017-01-22 12:48:03 Reply Private Reply
#21: Hank Rearden To: All (#0)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3516016/posts
To: RitaOK; Catmom; jimrob
And I’m doubling my donation, as we all should be, so JimRob can afford a backup server with automatic failover. No FReeloaders.
34 posted on 1/21/2017, 9:25:25 PM by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Hank Rearden posted on 2017-01-22 13:16:43 Reply Private Reply
#22: Tooconservative To: Hank Rearden (#21)
Tooconservative posted on 2017-01-22 13:22:40 Reply Private Reply
#23: A K A Stone To: Hank Rearden (#21)
I'm jealous. What do I need to do to bring in a third of a million?
A K A Stone posted on 2017-01-22 13:23:01 Reply Private Reply
#24: Tooconservative To: A K A Stone (#23)
You probably have to get some toady to post warmly approving Zot pix as you ban some of the membership.
It does work for RimJob. Also, you need to get Neil onboard to stage some carefully-timed "server outages".
Tooconservative posted on 2017-01-22 14:00:46 Reply Private Reply
#25: Hank Rearden To: A K A Stone (#23)
Beyond keeping a straight face, not a hell of a lot. You don't even need to use code that's been touched after 2009.
Editing posts? Who'd ever use that?
Hank Rearden posted on 2017-01-22 19:43:28 Reply Private Reply