Forum Laptop User Journeys (12th May 2012)

Much like my Forum Mobile User Journeys from last month. This only covers 1 of my 2 favourite forums at the moment.

(Thinking about it some more, I could use Fraps to record what I actually do.)

GTAMP Forum

  1. Feed showed lots of new posts.
  2. Skimmed the top screenful.
  3. Clicked through to the homepage of the forum.
  4. 10 areas in 3 groups.
  5. 7 areas had new replies.
  6. Opened all but the least interesting area in new tabs.
  7. Opened the least interesting area in current tab.

1st Area: Offtopic

  1. 4 topics had new replies.
  2. Opened the “View first unread post” link to all but the first topic in new tabs.
  3. Opened the first “View first unread post” link in current tab.
  4. Read the most recent entry.
  5. Got confused about the history so scrolled up and saw my most recent message in that topic.
  6. Used Copy-Paste to get some text from the new message.
  7. Scrolled back down and used “Quick Reply” and added my response.
  8. Saw the my most was entered.
  9. Closed this 1st “Offtopic” tab.
  10. Read the most recent message in the 2nd “Offtopic” tab.
  11. Closed the 2nd “Offtopic” tab.
  12. Read the most recent message in the 3rd “Offtopic” tab.
  13. Closed the 3rd “Offtopic” tab.
  14. Kettle had boiled so started cooking vegetables.
  15. Realised it was 12:34pm on Saturday, so turned on TV looking for motorsport.
  16. Read the most recent message in the 4th “Offtopic” tab.
  17. Closed the 4th “Offtopic” tab.

2nd Area: GTA1/GTA2 Chat

  1. 1 topic had new replies.
  2. Opened the 1st topic in the current tab.
  3. Read the topic from the start, as it was short lists of favourite levels for GTA2.
  4. Closed the 1st topic.

3rd Area: GTA1/GTA2 movies, music, images and replays

  1. 1 topic had new replies and seemed to be a new topic, so I opened it from the start in the current tab.
  2. Watched an embedded video in the first message.
  3. Read the other messages.
  4. Closed the 1st topic.

4th Area: GTA2 Game Hunter

  1. 2 topics had new replies.
  2. Opened the 2nd topic in a new tab as it was about errors in a project I’ve contributed code.
  3. Opened the “View first unread post” link for 1st topic in the current tab, as it was 14 pages long.
  4. Read the 1st topic which had 13 new replies, all important and interesting to me.
  5. Clicked one of the links from it to the Game Hunter project.
  6. Used that external website, then closed the tab.
  7. 2nd topic was a poll for which voting had closed, so the results were shown straight away.
  8. Turned out it was an old nonsense thread which had been bumped with a cross-post from the 1st topic.
  9. Closed the 2nd topic.

5th Area: Modding forum

  1. 1 topic has new replies.
  2. Opened “View first unread post” in current tab.
  3. Read all 6 new replies. The 1st one had 2 code samples; 2 others had some quoting of the immediately preceding message. Together, they created a detailed sequential conversation.

6th Area: “Maps

  1. 1 topic had new replies and seemed to be a new topic, so I opened it from the start in the current tab.
  2. Read the 2 messages within it.
  3. Closed the tab.

That was the end of my browsing!