OK. Who killed freerepublic?

[TidalWave46]

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/freerepublic.com.html

Edit: From their facebook page.

"Bad news. We were not able to bring the system up remotely. John is now on his way to the computer center to get hands on. We may be down for several hours. Sorry."

[Claritie Pixie]

1. What happened? Do tell!

[TidalWave46]

3. According to isitdown....

Their server has been down for fifteen hours.

I added the link to isitdown to my op.

[Aristus]

2. Um....their decades out-of-date web platform, maybe?

Shit. They were just a step above the telegraph with their website.

[hlthe2b]

13. Rubber-band powering it dry-rots now and then. So apropros

[NCLefty]

21. My partner told me this site looked like it was from the 90s. :p

[SoCalNative]

23. Must have run out of peanuts

for the squirrels

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. Maybe the hamster died.

[Hekate]

22. And then the gerbil became exhausted and escaped

[demmiblue]

5. OK. Who really cares?

[TidalWave46]

8. I think Jim R does this every now and then as an excuse to beg for more money. NT

[live love laugh]

42. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[targetpractice]

6. I joined FreeRepublic to lurk in 2001...

... Just after joining DU. I checked it daily, but then the extreme stupidity took over.

I didn't even know it was still a thing.

I do remember they tried to do a platform change like 10 years ago and the users revolted... True conservatives... can't tolerate change.

[live love laugh]

43. I completely forgot about Freepers too--thought they were extinct nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Maybe RimJob gnawed the power cord in his sleep.

[targetpractice]

10. His Hoveround yanked out the server power cord. n/t

[Cartoonist]

9. Mutiny in the ranks

I spend some time there. I don't get past the first page before being disgusted. Lately I've noticed some rumbling. They support Trump, but some feel uneasy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Irony?

They spent 2 decades wanting a president as ignorant and bigoted as they are, and have found out that when they get that, he claims to be above the law, so he gives them neither Freedom nor a Republic.

[TidalWave46]

14. +1 NT

[Vogon_Glory]

20. +1 n/t

[berni_mccoy]

12. Russia stopped funding them

[Kaleva]

15. It was glitching last night when I was lurking there. Numerous repetitive posts in various threads

[JHB]

16. They're out of hamsters and their credit card was declined at the pet shop

Until they get some hamsters for their hamster-wheel power source, they're dead in the aether.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. ...

[denbot]

45. Yikes

I hope the little Hammie had pet health insurance. Oh wait, the poor guy toiled at FR.. Poor thing.

[FarPoint]

18. Republicans....

They never pay their bills...it is known.

[lpbk2713]

19. The Freepers should bear in mind it's always on autopilot.

They should keep in mind how little maintenance is expended
the next time JimBob has a bleeding heart fund drive.

[SoCalNative]

24. The fund drives are constant now

They're worse than PBS and public radio.

[keithbvadu2]

39. Maybe even worse than NRA?

[Initech]

25. Wasn't me!

[crickets]

33. Bwahaha! I needed a laugh, thanks! I loved Stephen Stucker. He was great. nt

[Initech]

38. Yeah I just rewatched that movie a couple of weeks ago. Still classic!

[LaurenOlimina]

26. I'm going to say reason and decency killed Free Republic

[TidalWave46]

27. .

[Liberal In Texas]

28. Quick! Order more porta-potties!

[Grasswire2]

32. hahahaha!

good times, good times...

[lastlib]

41. Trump Dumps.......

where you dump your trump.

[blm]

29. Matt Gaetz? He seems to pop up around dead bodies.

http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/18966

[ramblin_dave]

30. Isitdownrightnow says it's up now

[Archae]

40. It is up.

[Grasswire2]

31. typical, typical

Next will come a super fundraising plea

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

34. Karma? nt

[sakabatou]

35. Wasn't the last donation run in the thousands of dollars

and the site still looks like shit?

[Poiuyt]

36. Has anyone seen Skinner today?

[jcmaine72]

37. I thought they already were dead.

I actually went there about 6 months ago and the site looked just like it did when I last visited it around 2007 or so. It was perfectly preserved, like Lenin's corpse or something. I just figured they were keeping that site up as an embalmed tribute to the past.

[live love laugh]

44. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ilsa]

46. Not to the past; to Reagan. nt

[jcmaine72]

47. Well, that was 30+ years ago.

That would definitely explain the 1980s Usenet vibe of the place.