"How do you follow TMP?" Topic

I read it right out of the can, with everything turned ON.
Back when Dear Editor™ gave us the option to format the Front Page however we wanted to, I went back and arranged things the way they always were. I hate change.

There are only two specific Boards that I search regularly, American Revolution and Flames of War.
I will browse others occasionally, but by no means regularly.

I read the front page mostly. Sometimes I will do an author search on me to look on older posts in which I responded.

I pick up new topics off of the home page, and fairly frequently do a search on my own name to check replies on threads I've posted to. I very rarely browse specific boards.

Same as the bleedin' banana

Same as John.

A moderate selection of boards on the front page. Frequent visits to specific boards that are staple genres, and others when I'm working on projects in that genre. Sporadic visits to other boards of interest that aren't currently an active project.

I have bookmarks for the places that are most interesting to me.
Ancients Discussion
Fantasy Discussion
Medieval Discussion
WW2 Painting Guides
I also scan the new posts on the front page.

I read the front page. I'll scan the boards a few times per day while at work. Most of the time I'm not even signed into my account.

I'm pretty much a front page, everything enabled, browser and only occasionally follow a particularly interesting thread or train wreck once it falls off the front page.

Im like McKinstry

I think I turned off 2 or 3 boards, otherwise I read from the frontpage. I did re-arrange the page a little, but not drasticly

Front page too. I also have a few boards turned off that'll never interest me (like Napoleonics!)

Damon.

Same a Dom. I've turned off a few boards, but not many.

From a safe distance

All boards on, read the front page.

As far as possible I've turned off or sorted to the bottom all the un-necessary clutter (showcase, marketplace etc).

I occasionally read boards directly, but as I am so lazy, often only if there is a link from a current thread on the front page. There are so many that I can't rememeber where stuff might be and searching is usually a waste of time.

It would be nice to to able to list threads on the front page by last updated rather than first posted, then I need never look at a board directly again.

Check once a day, everything on, read the front page and occasionally search.
-Kle.

What choice is there? You start at the top and you scroll to the bottom. If you are interested in what people are selling, you dart left and right. If you want to find something specific, you do a search and hope the search engine can find something relevant as there are hardly any filters and it ain't too bright. If you want to search Hobby News, well, you're out of luck. Fortunately the content for the site is gold and worth the time travel experience back to web design circa 1998 to find it >;D

I have everything "on" but if it isn't on the Front Page is usually ceases to exist for me. (I typically can't remember what board the thread was on and can't find my way back…)

Like John said

Front page, as-is, but with "modern" turned off (I set it that way to begin with, haven't bothered to change it).

I peruse the front page, and visit my six or so main boards about once a week, with specific searches. I think the last one was "converged grenadier".

I search me every now & then, to see where the topics go.

As the defunct banana.

Doug

As McKinstry said.

Just go right to the ones I am interested in.I tend to ignore the Frontpage. Robert

I don't have fantasy, sci-fi and that sort of thing ticked (not that that filters all of it out) and then read what's likely to be interesting of the rest on the front page.

About 10% of the Product News … As much as 20% of the message board posts

Phil

Default version of the front page, along with the ego search to keep up with topics I'm interested in.

Which probably explains the one-word comments made by some people.

I check the "historical" and "general" board about a thousand times a day.

Front page, but I have lots of boards turned off. Check it two or three times a day. More if I'm involved in a discussion rather than just lurking.

I have turned off a few sections I really don't have any interest in.

I've got little interest in historical, so…

I head to the Sci-Fi Section
Then The Fantasy Section
About half the time I'll also go to "In General"

Fairly often I'll check the entirety of what's for sale by scrolling down the front page.

"I pick up new topics off of the home page, and fairly frequently do a search on my own name to check replies on threads I've posted to. I very rarely browse specific boards."

yup that covers it.

Same as most, first page and scan for interest…..

By the tracks and the droppings, John.

Front page, scan for 'old' threads in which I've had
or have an interest. Not much turned-off.

Straight to boards, with an almost certain order. Afterwards may search for something new

Back to front… like to start with the comics.

Jump in a taxi, flash my badge and say "follow that bulletin board"!

It's pretty snowy here in Wisconsin, right now. I just follow the tracks.

I follow with a pooper scooper.

I am waiting for the movie version

Oh wait that's my dog!

I read the frontpage, going direct to the boards. I dont care about market and i just read brefly the news.
I read all the thread topics as i have checked all the boards, but i only read those i am interested in; even if i dont like the period i am interested in issues like comand and control systems.

I didnt used to read topics once they were out of the front page; its difficult for me to track them once they dissapear from the front page, as i am interested in so many boards.
In fact, it was a shock to discover that people posted even if the topic was out of the front page. I though that once they were out of the frontpage, they were over

Frontpage mostly. Ocassionally scour through a board if I am looking for ideas (especially terrain, painting and basing) or rules. If I need to do a search, I use google site:theminiaturespage.com (search object)" which finds a lot more relevant hits than using the TMP search function (IMO).

Enter directly on Napoleonics discussion, then flick through several other boards relevant to whatever I'm doing. Occasionally delve into General Boards – British Wargaming, TMP Talk and Utter Drivel.

Sometimes check Dawghouse to see who's there, and why.

If a Napoleonics thread starts going nasty, I find a nice reverse slope position and form a one-man square until it's over.

I click through like it's a bad habit:

Front Page
Click on a new News item or topic I'm interested in.
<Back>
click on another…repeat
Then I'll move onto specific boards if I hadn't already
15mm Sci-Fi
28mm Sci-Fi
40k
Flames of War
American Revolution
SYW
Cold Wars
Ancients Discussion

Edit: I REALLY REALLY miss the date field in the "Board" pages which were replaced with the "Display on Homepage?" field that I don't use.

Generally ck the Dawghouse to make sure I'm not in it first.
Then to the Lounge, then to TMP poll suggestions or talk boards. By then I have run out of time on the library's Computer.