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Surfing PC

Oryx

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    How do you browse PC? What's your method when you've just gotten home after a long day? What about when you've checked everything 5 minutes ago and you're hoping something new pops up?

    I just hit "New Posts" and open every interesting thread in a new tab so I can keep an eye on the whole forum at once.
     
    Go to whatever forums I'm interested in. Scroll downwards until I see an interesting topic. Reply to said topic. Back out of topic. Repeat.
     
    I log in to check if I got any messages or notifications, then I post at whichever thread interests me before I log out. If a close friend of mine is online, I stick around longer to chat with him or her until he or she logs out.
     
    Check notifications (if any) and respond to VMs if I get them. Otherwise it's usually scrolling down the new posts in each section and then posting in a thread I'm interested in.
    Sometimes I just go right to the Tech & Media/ general chat forum and see whats there to post. Oh and check gen chat DCC too see what's being talked about and run off somewhere less.
     
    I'll open the 'new posts in my subscribed forums' page or head straight for VG and CCC. The former is very nice... though I wish the icon to open it were slightly bigger.
     
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    Same way I surf every forum. Check notifications first. Those are important. Then proceed to open up every interesting subforum in new tabs. Peruse them for interesting threads. Read and/or reply if something catches my eye. Close tab.
    For PC, there's maybe 6 places I frequent but I really only post regularly here and in VG.

    Messages are handled once a week
    Err, every two weeks
    Whenever I'm not busy.
    Never.
     
    I really do nothing special but scroll through the index and click on newer post that look interesting. I do also click on individual sections too and just find what topics I like.
     
    check notifications/respond to messages, then I just go through the four or five boards I actually browse and go through most of the topics that interest me. it's probably inefficient but it seems to work. this whole 'new posts' thing might be a much better way to go about it.
     
    I just keep clicking on Cafe, honestly. If I have notifications, I'll check those. VMs, I'll probably be slow with replying to.
     
    I log in, head down to the CCC and check threads and post in anything that seems interesting, then lurk in other sub forums. I really need to start checking my notifications though, I always forget about those. I don't know how I miss the bold ass text, but I do somehow.
     
    PJBottomz said:
    Go to whatever forums I'm interested in. Scroll downwards until I see an interesting topic. Reply to said topic. Back out of topic. Repeat.
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    Same methodology. In general, I always open a new tab for the Anime/Manga, Video Games, and Chit Chat Section then I go through each seeing whether there are new topics and/or replies to interesting threads. Used to use the new posts method, but then again, majority of those posts are in sections that I don't really venture into \:
     
    I see what notifs. I have first, if I have any at all. If I have VMs/PMs, I usually reply to them, though sometimes I'll ignore them and reply later XD Anyway, after clearing my notifs. I'll visit the sections I'm interested in and see if there's anything worth replying to. If there is, I'll likely post; if not, I'll check another section, including one I may not visit as much. If it's a DCC or thread in Forum Games, I may do something else for a while, then check back to see if there are anymore posts that I can reply to. That's pretty much it XD
     
    There are a few areas I check out, like Pokémon Gaming Central, Trade Corner and Chit Chat Cafe. Sometimes challenges, but I mostly check out the DCC threads for each forum before I really browse what's going on.
     
    First and foremost, if I have any reports, I'll check to see if I do. If not, I check FC&G to see if I have any groups to approve and all. Nope? I then check my preferred sections like T&I, CCC, and others. Then I click on "new posts" to see what other threads are out there.
     
    I pretty much go straight to this forum and look for threads I haven't replied to. After a while, I'll get bored and go to Culture & Media. If I get any visitor messages or notifications when I come on, I'll check those out before anything. If I'm browsing and I get those, those become my priority. Though I may save visitor messages to reply to for later. Sometimes I'll go to the DCC. And then I just get bored and refresh and repeat and complain about how bored I am.
     
    I usually check any notifications or messages, and once those are done with I'll just be busy browsing my usual hangouts (The Welcome Lounge, some Pokemon boards, and to a lesser extent Chit Chat Cafe and a few other boards) along with the battle server.
     
    I scroll through the index and look at what's the latest thread that's been posted in. If I see it's in something I'm interested in or posted myself, I click the thread or the entire forum and make a new tab for it. I keep scrolling down the index and do the same for anything else I see. I usually make a tab for Challenges even if there's no new post, just to see what's happening in there as a whole.

    Generally, I make a tab for something in HQ, Challenges, Video Games, and CCC on my first scroll. I pretty much continue to do this for the rest of the time I'm on PC.
     
    I usually check my notifications first if I have any, then go to the main page and open all the sections I post in (Fight Club, ORAS, PKMN Gaming Central, Anime/Manga, CCC, sometimes other PKMN sections) then open all the threads that interest me. I realize that I usually end up browsing a lot more than I post, oh well.
     
    Most of the time I check PC I am actually on my phone, usually out having a smoke. It's something to do while I'm out there. I find threads I want to respond to later and when I do get to an actual keyboard I respond to them.
     
    Check my notifs, and then my profile in case they messed up or something. I know most of those notif issues are fixed now, but I'm now too used to checking out my profile in case I missed a VM. I check my favourite sections, like Fourth Gen, here and PGC among others, and if there's a thread I haven't posted in, then I'll post in it. If I have an idea on mind to make a thread with, then I'll get onto that.

    If I'm at school, I'll just quickly skim through sections I go to frequently, just to plan the afternoon's post run.
     
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