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[tim2000s]

As part of the ongoing review into the performance of the forum, we're trying to understand how people navigate around it, as, as some of you will have experienced in the past with search, different techniques have different impacts on the database.

If you could answer the following questions, it would be appreciated, and if you have any other comments about how you navigate around, that would also  be helpful!

1. When you have logged in, what's the first page you go to? e.g. Show Unread Topics, messages, Home, Show New Replies to your posts...

2. Once you have read a topic, what do you normally do next? e.g. Return to your previous page, Show Unread Topics, go to the home page, etc...

3. What navigation technique do you least use? e.g. I almost never go to the forum home page

4. How often (times per week) do you use the search function?

Thanks Guys!

[Kulli]

Open unread topics, open the ones i want to read in new tabs, then hit mark all as read.

[Cover_Drive]

Open unread topics, open the ones i want to read in new tabs, then hit mark all as read.

This.

After doing this then go to home/index page and go to For Sale section.

Search perhaps 3 times a week tops.

[mad_abt_cricket]

Only go through unread topics and after some time click again unread topics, it gives me the latest unread ones and not the ones I already went through some time back.

[Nickauger]

Always 'show unread topics' then the same again. Very rarely the home page, unless I'm looking for a topic that I know is in an advertisers section.

[thecord]

Always 'show unread topics' then the same again. Very rarely the home page, unless I'm looking for a topic that I know is in an advertisers section.

Same as this for me

[Liam-SCCC]

I always read recent posts first and then go back the the home age after I've read a topic

[tim2000s]

I always read recent posts first and then go back the the home age after I've read a topic

Do you mean the links on the bottom of the Home page?

[Liam-SCCC]

Yep

[Simmy]

im on it pretty much 24/7 so i just find my self watching the recent posts at the bottom

[Red Ink Cricket]

i tend to keep an eye out on the unread posts section as a first point of call. if im online all day ill just keep an eye on the recent posts with the odd look at the unread posts section.

think both are helpful.

search function wise i used it alot when i first joined and now its only every now and then.

[tushar sehgal]

unread posts since last visit.

[Canners]

Rarely use the search function

First thing I do is check replies to my posts and then unread posts

[Bruce]

Are people put off of the search bar because of the problems it had previously?

[petehosk]

I do the unread posts link.
Also search on which members are purchasing too many decent bats, and so far in 2012 that's Sherpa!