How do you read the 'Dope

In My Humble Opinion
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I usually click my avatar to see if someone is responding to something I’ve said.

Then I go to all categories and usually go to Factual Questions. Then Cafe Society. That’s usually all the time (or attention span) I have. If I have more time I will go to IMHO, MPSIMS,BBQ pit and About This Message board in that order. I almost never read Thread Games, Great Debates or Politics. No to Quarantine Zone or Marketplace.

And I usually only read at work - sometimes at home but not very often.

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Here’s a whole thread on pretty much your topic.

3

Interesting, it didn’t come up with a search. Maybe because of their title… or my imprecise search terms.

4

Check for responses, then hit Latest and go down the list.

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I also click on my avatar if it shows any responses. I don’t have Watching/Tracking set on any threads–just Normal. Then I just go to latest threads and read down. Note I have the majority of the Dope posts excluded from my feed–I exclude Politics, Trump, Thread Games, Game Room and a few other minor things.

6

I scroll through. Read Ops if it looks interesting.

I might respond.

I try really really hard to watch for the forum I’m reading. I trip up there.

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I scroll through the Latest entries and see what catches my interest. I usually read at work but sometimes log on at home.

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I use the normal default notifications, so I don’t have to click on my avatar to see if I have any notifications, I just check to see if there’s a little number in a yellow circle beside it. Also, any new notifications appear as a number in parentheses in the browser tab, so I can see it even when browsing on a different site. Other than that, I generally just scan the “latest” posts – a very handy Discourse feature – and check out some of my favourite ongoing threads.