How are the forums used, Ted?

[Joe911]

Statistically, how do people use the Gassing Station?

a) Do they manually roam around the forums reading several, but one at a time?

or

b) Do they set their favourite forums and use "What's New"?

Clearly some of each, but statistically is one way much more common than the other?

Personally, I'm almost exclusively (b).

[PetrolTed]

Since the beginning of November, 6104 members of PH have been in the forums (haven't got a measure of non-members currently).

Just over 1000 members have set up favourites.

[Mrs Fish]

Well I always use What's New its then like one big forum with a nice mix of everything. Once I have finished reading the current crop I'll mark all as read so that when I go back to it I will know whats been replied to since I was last there, then I will start the process all over again

[Joe911]

PetrolTed said:

6104 members of PH have been in the forums (haven't got a measure of non-members currently). Just over 1000 members have set up favourites.

Wow - people must really have time on their hands!

I have PH loaded all day (and evening) in a browser tab and just pop in there now and then to check for new stuff with "what's new"!

Ted - any chance of a preference to make the "What's New" page do an auto-refresh every 10 minutes (or 30 minutes if 10 is too often)?

[trooperiziz]

Mrs Fish said:

Well I always use What's New its then like one big forum with a nice mix of everything. Once I have finished reading the current crop I'll mark all as read so that when I go back to it I will know whats been replied to since I was last there, then I will start the process all over again

The problem with that is that it marks as read everything up to the current time, not the stuff that has been displayed. You have to get to the point where refreshing whats new doesn't bring up any new stuff and then quickly mark all as read.

[PetrolTed]

trooperiziz said:

You have to get to the point where refreshing whats new doesn't bring up any new stuff...

Not sure I understand that. Could you elaborate?

[trooperiziz]

PetrolTed said:

trooperiziz said: You have to get to the point where refreshing whats new doesn't bring up any new stuff... Not sure I understand that. Could you elaborate?

I can try...

Say I get in to work at 8. I do a whats new and spend the next half hour reading the threads. By the time i finish reading the whats new view is half an hour out of date, if I do a mark all as read at that point it will mark every thread up to that time as read, however there may have been new threads created in the past half hour that I didn't see.