Hi everyone,
I just wanted to know how you guys are keeping up with new stiff on the forum.
I just recently changed the forum settings, and now I try to look into all new topics, not only into those which are from the last two days. I use the web forum on my pc more often, but I started to check via FF on my phone as well.
I tried to minimise notifications via mail.
I notice that the mods, especially , are quite fast to react.
So, how do you manage, technically - and how do you, socially? Does the forum take much of your attention?
I disabled all email notifications - I’m online here every day anyway.
The forum does take up a lot of my time (according to these statistics I’ve spent 43 x 24 hours reading posts on the forum), but I do a lot of it while multitasking. E.g. I always have a FP Forum tab open when my browser is open so I get notifications and whenever I’m traveling alone in public transportation I’m on the mobile site.
I think it helps social life to mute the categories that you are not interested in / can’t contribute anyways.
PMs go to my email inbox so that I can respond from my email program rather than having to open up the forum. Other than that I don’t receive any email notifications.
I’m using the forum on my FP1 during my commute, but I suspect that the experience on Firefox for Android is not as good as on Chrome for Android because the former is not officially supported by Discourse (our forum software).
I just use the “latest topics” to get an overview of the latest topics. There, I can easily see which topics are new and whether or not there are new posts in the topics I marked as “tracked”. I start reading from the bottom (oldest “new” topics/posts first) to the top, opening the topics in new tabs. Since the forum is always opened in a tab (I have some tabs that are always opened in Chrome), I check it rather often during the day.
