[jimtorr]

Twenty minutes while drinking coffee in the morning skimming the Articles tab (instead of Activity or Comments), and you'll never miss a thread again.

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.

[1rudeboy]

I skim all the posting at once, making notes of the ones I wish to return to (most times). You are correct that some days traffic is heavier, lately it hasn't been.

I can go through 8-10 hours (I haven't really counted) of threads in twenty minutes. It takes another 40 to reply to the ones I'm interested in, and then I'm off to the races.

I check Articles when I wake up, around dinner, and before going to bed. Not a perfect system, but it works for me.