Share your tips and tricks making it easier to follow discussions

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I'm too old to like these Discourse Community scripts or as we old farts call them discussion forums. Since everyone is using them I don't have much choice other than to try and figure out how they work. My big issue is how they display replies both in a threaded format and then again as individual comments. Seems way too confusing.

While poking around I realized how this Summarize This Topic button works. Anyone have other tips for making sense of what you see in Discourse communities?

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I don't use many of the advanced features of Discourse. The threaded replies I just ignore, because I'll come across them soon enough if I keep scrolling. That helps a little bit though if I'm looking for a specific answer in a big thread.

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My forum workflow is pretty much,

  1. Go to the unread threads and catch up there on threads I follow.
  2. Go to the latest section and look at new threads.
  3. If I like a thread I will follow it so it shows up in 1
  4. If I really like a thread I will watch it so I get email notifications.

Other than that I subscribe to the rss feed so I can easily see the newest threads in my RSS feed reader. That is how I found this one.

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What are you using for an RSS feed reader?

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I use inoreader. I'm a power RSS user so I pay to support them as they are great. I find if a forum doesn't have an RSS feed I don't even bother visiting it. I don't have time to visit every website I follow so I make the information come to me.

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