I'm right with you!
What about the campaign pledge? McCain wanted to Balkanize, but Bush promised "no Blanket Balkanization!"
It's like Hillary runs the joint now.
Posted on 03/30/2002 1:02:28 AM PST by Nogbad
You know Jim told me once that this was going happen. Of course his implication was that the Intelligent people would be able to hang out in one place and the "KOOKS" in another. I told him that this would just cause seperation. And No thanks. I remember his reply..."I see". It is a real shame even if people wanted to unite on an issue they would not be able to do it effectively here anymore. And for those people who just come here without being registered(I have added a bookmark to FR on many a persons Browswers) This is going to be a real turn off to them too.
Either that or they are getting some sleep!
Hmmm.. I didn't know I was one.
If that is the reason, then it is working.
Clearly, this is Mr. Robinson's site and he's the final arbiter. But these changes are making my surfing experience more difficult and slow. I am a fairly fast reader and information is no longer in an easily scanned format. Think about it. Books and newspapers follow very simple formats that haven't changed in a century (outside of color). Why? Because they worked at getting information to the customer.
I can see their point if they had no way to discern the gist of the thread, but cryin' out loud, all they had to do was scroll past the thread! Now here we are trying to read small fonts, waiting eons for pages to load (I have cable modem and its still long), and generally all in a snit.
And, yes, I have sent $$$.
We're not all out to get you. Really. Really we're not. :)
There isn't a dime's worth of difference between Beta and the Dem Underground format. Nowhere in the constitution does it mention Beta. Obviously this is another sign that the end is near, the barbarians are at the gate, and the 4 horsemen prepare to ride." < / satire >
SNORT.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Thank you, I needed that.
I'm right with you!
What about the campaign pledge? McCain wanted to Balkanize, but Bush promised "no Blanket Balkanization!"
It's like Hillary runs the joint now.
Tom, please don't try to charaterize this in divisive terms. We're all on the same team here. Some of us are quarterbacks, and you, well, you're just one of the ends.
With an attitude like that, just maybe I'll log off and take my money with me. In the last fund raiser I gave a dam* and contributed a large percentage of my state's contribution (somewhere around 25 %, as I recall, due to a lack of other contributers). The only thing I'm asking that it buy is an efficient and fast Conservative FreeRepublic web site on a slow-dial up-modem, which it did. This new FR design is not that, and I have no problem in telling John and Jim what my opinion is.
I just want the old FR or at least the option to choose the old format.
Soooo incredibly clever! Thanks for superb lyrics to my favorite song.
I really see no real difference in the way the threads/posts are displayed for browsing through them... what do you mean exactly?
You can turn on/off the display of the "full post" or just the headline, so with only the headlines displayed, I see very little difference, functionally, from the old way. And yet when things are slow, you can view the whole text of replies in "latest posts" and find interesting conversations that are happening within threads.
As for the font size, you can control that in your browser (Or at least I can with IE 6)
To find another FReeper's posts, do the following:
Click on "Search" at the top or bottom of any thread page and in bold maroon letters
above the search field it will say:
Find User Click Here
Clicking that will open up an additional search field to enter a FReeper's screenname. To avoid
misspellings, I'd recommend selecting their name, copying (ctrl+c) and then pasting it (ctrl+v).
Hope this helps.
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