Your regular/frequent websites

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

I suspect there's a lot of overlap as one or two sites (e.g. amazon, youtube) seem to have something not far off a monopoly in what they offer. But my top 12 would be as follows:

Six sites that are totally embedded in my habits, to the point where I would have to try quite hard to dispense with them:

1. Hotmail (my email channel)
2. Facebook (my social media outlet)
3. BBC (my default source of news)
4. Wikipedia (my default source of almost all other info)
5. Youtube
6. Amazon (for non-food shopping)

and six others that I use heavily

7. this site
8. the Guardian
9. imdb
10 the ATP rankings + live scores
11 Ocado (default source of groceries)
12 the 2048 game site (gabriellicirulli)

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Your regular/frequent websites

I should say, though, that some sites are not quite as universally used/known as one might expect. My 87 year old Mum has used the internet for years now, and had never gone on Youtube until I visited her last month. She'd heard of it, but had assumed it was some kind of site for paying subscribers.

[Furtho]

Your regular/frequent websites

My regulars are here, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, coupled with an RSS feed reader containing roughly 100 or so different sites. If I had to pick one of those sites, it would perhaps be Things Magazine.

[Crusoe]

Your regular/frequent websites

Gmail, Hotmail, Twitter and (to a much lesser degree) Facebook and The Guardian cover it for me.

Message boards (here, OWTB for Oldham and a Farnborough forum) are some way behind as well

Most of the websites/pages I read are based on links in my Twitter feed, saved to Instapaper:

- Football articles RT'd by The Blizzard and The Set Pieces
- In-depth articles posted by Longreads or Longform
- Gaming articles (Kotaku, Eurogamer, Kill Screen, Offworld)
- App articles (The Platter, Beautiful Pixels, TNW, Macworld, MacStories)
- Local news (St Albans Review, sometimes the Camden New Journal)
- Random stuff (London Reconnections, Nedroid for cartoons)

[Crusoe]

Your regular/frequent websites

Oh, and Google. Always searching for things. I could probably switch to Bing easily enough, and there's Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, but after that I'd need a search engine to look for a search engine to use. Are AltaVista, Lycos and FAST around these days?

[Muukalainen]

Your regular/frequent websites

I use the internet mostly for news, so it's The Guardian, YLE (state broadcaster, mostly national news in English) and Kaleva (local rag, local and national news in Finnish), plus OTF, with YouTube and Wikipedia some distance behind.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Your regular/frequent websites

Ashley Madison [sob]

[Guy Profumo]

Your regular/frequent websites

BBC News.
Here.
Twitter.
The increasingly depressing Sheffield Forum
Darlofc.co.uk
YouTube
Trainbooking, a combination of Hull Trains, TPExpresss, East Midlands, East Coast

Try to avoid.

Murdock
Dially Mile

Use occasionally if I need to leave an email address

Hotmail
Gmail

Won't use. Not now. Not ever.

Amazon
Trainline

And Google for searching, but I'm not sure that really counts as it's just a stepping stone to somewhere else.

[Ginger Yellow]

Your regular/frequent websites

Excluding forums like this one and close-knit community blogs that serve much the same purpose, and in no particular order:

Gmail
Youtube
Talking Points Memo
FT (for work)
Investegate (likewise)
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Comics Curmudgeon
Wonkette
Assorted Deptford/Greenwich blogs
Amazon
Netflix
Language Log

[3 Colours Red]

Your regular/frequent websites

Without counting e-mail, Google or YouTube as I'm sure everyone who posts here uses them:

BBC Sport (self-explanatory)
Daily Mirror (ditto)
Retro Gamer Forum (a forum about retro games, who'd have thunk it?)
TV Ark (because of an interest in TV ephemera that I've had since I was small and noticed we could get three different ITV regions)
XKCD (because the last two weren't geeky enough...)
TV Tropes (because the last three weren't geeky enough...)
Darwin Awards
GameFAQs (just because I'm a committed gamer doesn't mean I'm any good at them)
TuneIn Radio
Sickipedia
Miniclip
Club MST3K

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Crusoe wrote: Oh, and Google. Always searching for things. I could probably switch to Bing easily enough, and there's Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, but after that I'd need a search engine to look for a search engine to use. Are AltaVista, Lycos and FAST around these days?

Only one I can think of is the English-language Yandex (which is the biggest search engine in Russia).

[wiblflibl]

Your regular/frequent websites

Typing just one letter in the address bar gives:

a - amazon uk, atdhe.cc (football streams)
b - bbc news and sport
c - calibre (ebook library management tool)
d - discogs.com
e - ebuyer.com
f - food4wildbirds.co.uk, forums.cdprojektred.com
g - goatzoneforum (Horsham FC), google
h - horsham-fc.co.uk, herma.com/software (label design)
i - imdb.com
j - jamjarshop (not for long, service is now terrible)
k - nothing
l - localhost:9090/sabnzbd/
m - mobilism.org, moviefone.com
n - online banking
o - o2.co.uk
p - nothing
q - nothing
r - rottentomatoes, rationalskepticism.org
s - southern combination football league
t - tvguide.co.uk, twitter
u - yahoo mail uk
v - nothing
w - wsc, west sussex county times, whocallsme.com
x - xperteleven
y - youtube
z - zooplus.co.uk (cat food)

[ad hoc]

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Gmail et all as per above

Various Moodles and Blackboards ("Virtual learning environments") hosted in different paces upon which I do most of my work when I'm not away doing it in a classroom

xe.net/ucc for currency calculations which I need when writing invoices

Yahoo fantasy NFL at this time of year

Xpert eleven

I'm off to China on Saturday for two weeks, which means a complete re-jigging of my access points as Google tends to be blocked. this will involve me forwarding all my email, using Bing for maps and other such like annoying jiggery pokery

[Ginger Yellow]

Your regular/frequent websites

Stumpy Pepys wrote:

Oh, and Google. Always searching for things. I could probably switch to Bing easily enough, and there's Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, but after that I'd need a search engine to look for a search engine to use. Are AltaVista, Lycos and FAST around these days?

Only one I can think of is the English-language Yandex (which is the biggest search engine in Russia).

Baidu, of course, but probably not great in terms of non-Chinese results. Though to be honest I don't know if it self-censors for users outside of China.

[Errorist Sympathiser]

Your regular/frequent websites

Always in the same order:

Gmail
Facebook
Twitter
UKFF - wrestling site
Wrestling Observer
DVDVR - wrestling site
WSC
British Speedway Forum
BBC News
Bleeding Cool - comics site

[Big Boobs and FIRE!]

Your regular/frequent websites

My history shows that my most visited site by far is the blog of the Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway Lineside Drainage Team. I was happy with that.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gwr-lineside-drainage-management/

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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My "x" most common history entry would be, er, far more racy than anything to do with betting on football. It's got little to do with hamsters, either, come to think of it.

[Mumpo]

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I was thinking of starting a thread for the 'one letter in the address bar' thing.

a: Amazon (yawn)
b: BBC News (yawn)
c: Cookdandbombd forum - it's like OTF on acid
d: Drownedinsound
e: Ebay (yawn)
f: Facebook (yawn)
g: Gallifrey Base
h: Hotmail (yawn etc.)
i: Woah - The International Business Times. After one visit. I need to get a proper 'i' site.
j: Julia Holter's site. Hang on, I only looked at that for the first time yesterday.
k: A torrent site whose name I shall not disclose
l: The website of my employer
m: Mixcloud (you all listen to my Solstice mixes, yeah?)
n: Er, more dodgy album downloads, PTP this time
o: Outlook
p: Pitchfork
q: The Quietus
r: Roku's site, apparently
s: Skatehut (funding my son's skate and scooter habit)
t: The Quietus again
u: Understanding Life - Why does a rabbit twitch its nose?
v: nothing
w: This place
x: nothing
y: Tube of You
z: Our internet provider

[ian.64]

Your regular/frequent websites

The Guardian
WSC
BBC website
Filmscoremonthly.com
Newsnow.com
Football365.com
Twitter

[seand]

Your regular/frequent websites

apterous.org for playing Countdown online (my only interaction with 'gaming')
Google, for everything really. Is there another useable search engine out there? Don't like Bing
Gmail and yahoo mail
Here
Dundalk Talk, and foot.ie for more general League of Ireland
extratime.ie for Irish results and fixtures
http://www.footballprogrammecentre.co.uk/forum/index.php football programme collecting forum
Guardian football occasionally
RSSSF for football stats occasionally
Irish Times occasionally
Wikipedia, often as a starting point for basic info

Twitter only on my phone

[Jah Womble]

Your regular/frequent websites

Something like:

01 Email
02 Wikipedia
03 Google
04 BBC 6Music
05 Facebook
06 This place
07 BBC News/Football
08 NatWest online
09 YouTube
10 Livefootballontv
11 Ultimate Music Database
12 BBC Radio (general)
13 Virgin East Coast
14 Fantasy League Professional
15 BBC iPlayer
16 IMDb
17 First Great Western
18 Accuradio.com
19 Soccerbase
20 Huffington Post

LinkedIn used to be 'up there' but less so these days - and I've never got into Twitter. On the other hand, I'm fascinated by how many other discussion forums folk on here post their contributions. Where do they find the hours?

[3 Colours Red]

Your regular/frequent websites

seand wrote: Google, for everything really. Is there another useable search engine out there? Don't like Bing

Bing is arguably better for image searches, definitely better for porn.

[gavc23]

Your regular/frequent websites

Aside from Hotmail, then tend to spend time on-

- Den of Geek
- mcfc.co.uk to track away tickets and the videos are pretty good
- Guardian
- Kayak/Skyscanner/Google Flights
- The PDC site and another darts forum
- The HMRC, European Commission, Finnish Revenue sites for work

[Sits]

Your regular/frequent websites

In no particular order:

Google and Wikioedia, usually in that order
Gmail
Work email
Here
XPert Eleven (far too much)
Guardian
BBC (when the Grauniad crashes my iPad)
Qantas
Facebook
Tinypic (must sort out a Dropbox)
Livescore.com
bom.gov.au (Bureau of Meterology)
NAB Intenet banking
Imdb