My 1st peek at the freeper website . . . what a complete clusterfuck!

[fleur-de-lisa]

HOLY SHIT . . . the freeper website is a complete clusterfuck . . . it is, graphically, a total mess! It looks like a 7 year old designed the site. I have a headache just from looking at it!

I won't bother to report on any of their nonsense. It's just too bat-shit crazy to repeat.

This makes me very thankful for the professionalism of DU. Not having been here very long, I guess I just took it for granted. THANK YOU, DU!

And now, I need a bleach bath!

[Skittles]

1. can you believe those dipshits still DONATE to that site?

one reason I have been donating to DU for over a decade is it keeps improving - the freak republic never evolves, just like its members

[madinmaryland]

12. You gotta remember that Freepers don't believe in evolution!! That web site was created in six days

and on the seventh, RimJob took a dump, giving the internet world that cesspool!!

[MatthewStLouis]

22. Ha ha ha! Too funny! Six days! :) /nt

[fleur-de-lisa]

31. 'RimJob' . . . Ha Ha! - n/t

[Skittles]

34. I BOW TO YOUR SUPERIOR WIT, MIM

[RichGirl]

37. Very funny....

And precisely accurate! Good job!

[Enrique]

2. they are old school n/t

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. Or 'no school' - n/t

[chelsea0011]

3. I think they are still using DOS over there.

[part man all 86]

10. They are using signal flags through tubes, such rubes.

[Buddaman]

5. tried looking at it myself once.........ONCE!

i got coody's

[aletier_v]

6. Quarterly freepathon is pulling in about $1K per day.

That means each freepathon currently ends about five days before the next starts.

Not a positive trend for their funding model.

[CJCRANE]

11. Nice work if you can get it.

I've never understood what JimRob spends all that money on.

[aletier_v]

13. Whatever it is, it appears to be shrinking

They've driven away most of the high-wage semi-libertarian types like me.

All that's left is an echo chamber of religious weirdness and truly obamidable racists.

[bongbong]

15. The same thing all repigs spend it on

Hookers, crack, and lawyers to keep them out of jail.

[NYC Liberal]

16. Read this DU post from a few years ago that has the breakdown:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x209694

From Freeperland:

Est. Recurring Monthly Contributions $10,100

Monthly Expenses
Bandwidth and Colocation $2,700
System Administation and Programming 5,000
Administrative and Taxes 9,500
Legal and Accounting 1,000
Bank Fees, Credit Card Fees, Processing Fees 800
Equip, Maintenance and Repairs 300
Office Expenses, Rents, Insurance, Telephone, ISP, Supplies, Misc. 2,500
Travel Expenses 800

Total 22,600.00

Fleecing suckers. Is there anyone here who believes it costs $23K a month to run that shit hole of a website?

[begin_within]

19. If it's true they are getting ripped off badly

They could get a hosting account for about $15 per month that would likely cover all their needs.
Don't know why it would cost $2700. Or 5k for administration. Or 1000 for accounting.
And all those other expenses... all of that could be done for MUCH less.

[NYC Liberal]

24. I wonder where that $800 a month for "travel expenses" goes...

[begin_within]

28. Cayman Islands?

[aletier_v]

20. How much does DU cost?

Some of those numbers do look flaky, like Admin & Taxes... sysadmin $5k?

It must be hosted on IBM.

[NYC Liberal]

23. If DU costs the same, we're getting a lot more for our money.

For one thing, DU doesn't actually crash during big events like elections and debates. Sometimes it gets a bit slow, but I only remember DU actually being down a few times since I joined in 2004 and I don't believe any of them had anything to do with server load.

[begin_within]

21. I would love to see them produce receipts to back up those numbers.

I hope they get audited by the IRS. If they are making claims of expenses on their tax forms, and can't back them up with receipts, I hope they get in big trouble. If they do have receipts showing all those expenses, then I feel sorry for them because they have been ripped off badly.

[aletier_v]

25. I've got it.

Sysadm @ $5K is Jim Rob

and $10K of Admin & Taxes are his wife and son.

[begin_within]

27. So it's the family business...

[begin_within]

29. They spend $5k/month on admin/programming, and the site still says "1 Replies"

[RichGirl]

38. I'd rather that the $1K went there....

...than to Romney.

[Indpndnt]

7. Looks like it was created on a Commodore 64 by a monkey banging on the keyboard with a rock.

A blindfolded monkey. [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url]

And I'm being kind. [url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url]

[begin_within]

18. Yes but they just upgraded to a new system:

[Indpndnt]

33. Oh, no!

They'll be unstoppable now!

[url=http://www.cosgan.de/smilie.php][img][/img][/url]

[budkin]

8. It's one of the poorest designed sites on the internet other than maybe Craigslist

If I were a conservative I'd find someplace else to post

[aletier_v]

9. I did. I came to Du. :)

But not because of the sucky interface.

[Indpndnt]

30. Lol!

[budkin]

36. Are you an ex-freeper?

[RichGirl]

39. I like Craigslist just the way it is.

I rely on it for my business and it needs to be simple enough for anyone to figure out. I don't want anyone to have too search and click 15 times to find me.

[tarheelsunc]

14. I don't care if it's right or wrong to say, there are a lot of degenerates there.

Everyone there is completely brainwashed and irrational.

[theKed]

26. Ironically

It's quite the case study in social darwinism.
Anybody that strays too far to the left gets shouted down, gang-beat (metaphorically) and banned. Those that are remaining shift the needle a bit more right and shave off the next left-most, all the while self-reinforcing their ridiculous bullshit drivel.

[aletier_v]

32. Yes, I watched it devolve into an echo chamber for years

I'm concerned that FR might be a fore-runner of what the Internet in general may become - a lot of bubbled people living in their own private Idaho.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. A 7 year old from 1990. Same with Sludge or whatever the fuck his name is. nt

[We People]

35. Psychologists/Psychiatrists would have a field day there, or even for just an hour

It's enough to worry about getting a virus from being there. What are the odds of at least contracting their strain of cooties through that unique system of intertubes?