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Earlier today, it was white screens that responded to refresh for page to load. Now, I am getting logged off. After a reboot, I could log back on. Is it just me?

Yo, JohnRob, the sidebars vanished. Got fix?

I received an unusual email from FR today: On Mon Sep 16 12:23:52 2013 somebody at the Internet address 138.162.0.42 requested this information to be sent to you. Your screen name is: Bob Your password is: ----------- (removed) To log into your account, please visit: http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/login When I looked up the requesting IP address, this is what was returned: Overview for 138.162.0.42 Updated 0 seconds ago NetRange: 138.162.0.0 - 138.162.255.255 CIDR: 138.162.0.0/16 OriginAS: NetName: NMCI-NET-ORF NetHandle: NET-138-162-0-0-1 Parent: NET-138-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment RegDate: 1990-05-07 Updated: 2011-02-23 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-138-162-0-0-1 OrgName: Navy Network Information Center (NNIC) OrgId: NNICN-1 Address: 2465 GUADALCANAL ROAD...

Somebody here said they are making up a list.

I am pretty upset right now. I posted Sarah latest Facebook in the frontpage news around 9pm - and it's gone again - and some stupid posts stay there for a week!!! What is the problem??? Jim, why an important post from Sarah concerning obama and Syria - cannot be more news than that - could not stay in frontpage news for more than an hour when here is no new major news??? I want to know how much we must pay to stay there more than an hour? I regret my $10!

Here we glitch again. Glitching like we use to do often. It's glitching and the display's short. OK, so I'm being punny, but...it's baaaccckkk.

Has anyone else run into a posting glitch using Chrome on an Android device? After receiving a Chrome browser update yesterday, I can no longer post to FR from my phone. (I had never encountered any difficulties before this update.) The first word that I enter as a reply to a thread gets repeated when I hit the space following it. Trying to position after the repeated word to delete it just repeats that same first word over and over. I've tried logging out of FR and back in again with no change. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Bob.

Why is FR repeatedly having this problem? Over & over.... Why cant it be solved once and for all?

Dear FRiends, A FReeper sent me a short list of names this morning that he says he found on an internet site that matched up freeper names to their real names. He says he managed to get the site owner to delete it and we can thank him for that. But in the message he sent me there was also an accusation that the list was provided to a third party by John Robinson. That's bullshit. John would never do such a thing. On a hunch, I looked up the listed names on FR's facebook page and sure enough all...

As I was settling in to read a 500 post thread, the gremlin came back.

Sorry for the use of bandwidth but can someone please tell me how to send a private email to a moderator. I've tried a couple addresses but don't think they are going through. Thanks

What's an FR enthusiast to d

The Sidebar is missing!

Thanks!!

I'm needing a bit of advice here and hoping someone could possibly answer my question. I want to delete my account and need to know what the procedure is . Thanks!

Looks like a realatively high volume of page requests is overwhelming FR yet again. Perhaps it's past time to call in some FR code jockeys to get this straightened out?

OK now I've watched several posters in the last few minutes, post articles. The article titles, are in all-caps.

Is anyone else noticing problems with pages on FR today. Main forum page and threads are not showing fully for me in either Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.

Hopefully, John will check his messages soon and get the problem fixed, but until then, the temporary workaround is to go to Account (located at the top of the latest posts page) and then My Preferences and set 20 messages per page and 20 results per page: http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/settings Sorry about the recurring problem and hoping John gets a permanent fix soon. Jim

Sidebar is no longer on my FR page. How do I get it back?

uhm... i guess i created an account MAYBE ten minutes ago, and its saying my account is too new to do anything... do i need to register anything? i already registered my email, so do i need to do anything else? am i missing something?

When I go to the Forum page, (on the left side) I get the last post entered on the topic threads instead of the intro post.

Are we starting to have technical/server issues again? I've tried accessing through different computers with differnt browsers but have found the same problems on each: 1) My sidebars have vanished. 2) Only about a dozen or so articles display on the main page. 3) On some article, particularly the graphics intense only part of the article displays. It appears as though the server is timing out too quickly.

Anyone else having problems?

FR is going lame again, where is the tech support when you need them?

Been out to the back 40 today. Toil on Sunday....non-skilled but necessary grunt work leaves time for prayer and reflection. Anyway, I get done, showered, and supped, then FReep on....whaaa? The format is totally changed. All quick links to Breaking, and Activism is gone. Ten and the beginning of an 11th thread is as far as I can scroll. I hit NextPage, and the full 11th doesn't show. Clicking on a thread, is about the same maybe the first dozen replies; to read any more of the replies, it must have 50+. I went to my account, and all the...

Hopefully, John will check his messages soon and get the problem fixed, but until then, the temporary workaround is to go to Account and My Preferences and set 20 messages per page and 20 results per page: http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/settings Sorry about the problem, Jim

Odd observation, but it has been seen in six different threads the past few minutes: The thread title, and the usual FreeRepublic title block will display. But only 14 to 18 replies are displayed, and no end-of-thread links nor the usual FreeRepublic lower page links.

Woo hoo!!

I have a tech question: how does one make a jpeg picture link viewable as a picture on free republic? For example, if I want to show this jpeg photo of President Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher: http://www.donnamoderna.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/moda/accessori/thatcher/ronald-reagan-e-margaret-thatcher/67684353-1-ita-IT/Ronald-Reagan-e-Margaret-Thatcher.jpg How can I show the photo itself and not just the link? Many thanks in advance to whoever can show me how to do this.

OK fellow FR ping list managers, here is a place to gather, to chat and to identify issues that we need help with. Me first, since this is my thread. The pro-life/Catholic ping list is now so large that the system pings twice and three times all too often. Any ideas on fixing this?

Can't get beyond the first 17 replies in a thread.....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2982894/posts?page=87#87

Sorry that the truncating pages and missing sidebars problem is back again. I'm trying to reach John so he can fix it. No luck so far. Hope he checks his messages soon. I've also asked him what causes this, but he hasn't answered. Hoping we can get a permanent fix soon. Meanwhile, the work around is to set the number of results and items per page to 20 each. Look for the "My Preferences" link under "Account" at the top of any of the latest posts index pages. Thanks

Help! Today I started getting pop-ups while Posting Comments on Free Republic. I am also getting some of the words and terms in my comment turned into hyperlinks. This is in Firefox 18.0.1 Popup Blocker is "On" in Firefox Options. Any ideas? Thanks!

Lost my sidebars and scrolling down again!! It was fine just a moment ago!

Free Republic is only showing a few posts at http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index. When one goes to the next page a lot of posts are skipped. Anyone else seeing this?

All I see is the sidebar for breaking news on my left, and I logged out and logged in again I am going to taqke a shower, keep posting if anything new happens!

FR page lay out looks strange on my computer. Wondering if anybody else is having this problem? Looks like something is screwy with the HTML.

The Freerepublic pages are not fully loading, leaving the pages cutoff in the middle of a comment. The navigation selections at the bottom of the pages are not accessible.

I'm only getting about 8 postings at a time this morning. Anybody else having trouble viewing FR's normal number of postings? jagusafr

Who is blocking comments on the Free Republic I used to love. (Used to being the KEY WORD here). Has Jim been warned not to let anything controversial (anti Obama - anti government) pass? Have we lost our right of free speech? Yes. It definitely has been or is being enforced on FR this past month or so.

With Free Republic surely getting slammed tomorrow, what is an on-line alternative to TV with the ability to post comment?

Some good news perhaps. John says he has found a problem with one of the servers and he's going to try to configure around it. But it'll take him a couple hours or more before he's ready to test it. Hang in there. Prayers up that it works!

This site has been a frustrating disaster for the last week. What the he'll is going on? I can't get the page to load but 1 of 4 attempts. I'm about to give up, and I've been a member since 1998. Please tell me this will be fixed before Tuesday!!

Happy Birthday Jim. November 3 is mine as well so I never forget.

I wonder what's up with this? Could it have anythng to do with The Donald?

I saw quite a few threads commenting on how slow the website has been. I have seen a big improvement in the last 4 or 5 days. Something has changed for the better and I think deserves a thread for people to comment. Thanks to Jim Robinson for all you do to help us connect.

Very sorry about the problems with our servers causing FR to get bogged down under peak traffic loads. Praying that John finds a solution or workaround soon. In the meantime, here are some suggestion you can use to possibly make your FR pages load faster: Configure your sidebars to display fewer items. I've temporarily disabled all sidebars but breaking news on mine. Select "Disabled" in the "Region" pulldown for each sidebar block you wish to temporarily disable then click "Modify": http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/manage-blocks Reduce the number of threads and replies downloaded on each click. Go to personal preferences and reduce the "Thread...