In fact the best informative-type threads on FR rarely get many replies . . . why should you count on luck-of-the-draw in order to see one?
Ha!
I spend 20 - 60 minutes going over the postings from the night before when I get up at 5:00, Eastern Time. Most mornings, after I get to work and take care of the initial dummy S/W engineers, I take another 30 minutes at about 9:00 to catch up on how the day has started out on the East Coast, and the early doings elsewhere.
I take another 40 - 60 minutes to read FR over lunch, and usually manage 30 minutes during the afternoon.
When I get home at around 6:00 pm, I usually find that I've missed a ton of stuff that happened during the day! Since finding FR in 1998, I've become a terrible news junkie, and I still miss an awful lot of material I'm interested in.