Well the home page is the very first button at the top navigation, and then you just click your username and it brings you straight there.
The other half of the time I open the notification panel and click my name there and then click my name again on the drop down (it involves more clicks though 
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Maybe we can consider ditching āclunkyā as a way to describe features. It isnāt that descriptive (i.e. how does one fix a āclunkyā feature?) and we should keep in mind that people who create thus stuff actually hang around here 
Actionable
Not actionable
I could.
The home page has less features: games, groups, tournaments. Thatās all I need usually.
Profile page has also trophies, reviews and history, which I donāt need usually.
If you hide ranks (like I do) that just isnāt there.
Actually, I like home page because it has LESS features. 
Itās simpler and faster.
I also donāt use thumbnails for games.
I would also do without my face! (the user image)
And I could also do without friend list, since itās available in the top bar.
If you want to remove duplicates, Iād prefer removing them from the profile page.
I believe Home should be the places/info one most wants to see when on the site. I donāt come to this site to see my profile although I can get there from many places when I want to!
Main reason I come to OGS is to play1, so I think that is the rationale for adding at least some of the components into the homepage.
1Thatās a lie, I come here for the Forums
This is interesting, the main reason I go to the OGS site is to review my games or look at game history for some reason so I only ever want the profile page.
[Maybe could distil the whole of OGS down to a page for āgamesā (current ones, historical ones and finding new ones) and one for ānot gamesā* for everything else. ]
ā*ā Or just āforumsā obvs
For starters I wasnāt going to repeat what he said so I agreed with him by typing its clunky.
Second off clunky is informative if you donāt know what is clunky when pointing out a feature is clunky I donāt know what to tell you. And, if you can look at the graph and not understand why its clunky then I donāt think there is anything I could say that would make it descriptive enough since you simply have a different opinion.
And, if you do think its clunky and just donāt think I included enough information then well to bad I guess I was responding to someone with an agreeative statement not a statement of my own.
Thatās fair. I guess Iām trying to let you know that saying stuff is clunky is a little clunky (takes up space and doesnāt provide any additional information)
Sometimes no more information needs to be provided and a thread just needs to show that there are āmoreā people who agree with an issue. He stated what needed to be stated the next step is people agreeing with it or disagreeing with it.
Nailed it.
Once again we find that other peopleās use and practices are totally suprising to each other.
The phone people seem to use the Home page. Personally, like tea, I rarely click on the Home page link, much more often on the Profile link.
Didnāt we establish before that laptop people use the home page due to using the whole screen. I am a phone personā¦
[Donāt understand why the profile page canāt use the whole screen though. Itās nonsense that the game history table is in its own little window surrounded by blank spaces either side. I know itās been raised before in another thread but stillā¦]
I dunno I was just responding to the fact that Bhydden and others said they like the Home page on their phone? Or did I misunderstand that.
Anyway suffice to say it was nice to hear from another person who uses Profile rather than Home 
(Iām on a laptop, FWIW).
I use both (mainly phone though) and I use both pages, but for different reasons, none having to do with page layout.
Reasons for using home:
Reasons for using profile:
My phone only usually has chat open.
On my desktop I have a forum tab, chat tab, home tab, and mod center tab
I only go to profile if I want to check something in historyā¦
What do you use the Home page for?
I only ever arrive there when OGS directs me there (maybe fresh tab or something?)
I get to my games by clicking the notification indicator.
I have the impression that some people use Home to select which game to play ā¦ this might be more common for people who have lots of games going at once, which is not me.
Underlining the fact that usage is very person/circumstance dependent!
Edit: I just discovered that the usage habit that gets me to the Home page is when Iām in the forum and chose the link at the top of the forum to go from here to the main site - that ends me up at the Home page. The other way I get to the main site is via a bookmarked Chat tab.
Home should honestly be where important information is placed. Information you would want new players to know when they are entering and probably a section for the announcements that keep popping up because then it would make home an important section for some people to want to read and look at.
There is so much wrong with the home area being the games section.
2 main reasons.
Donāt get me started on that. When I first joined OGS I was faced with a blank page that says something like āyouāre not playing any gamesā. So I clicked on āgamesā ā¦ I think I freaked out at that point and closed everything. I must have eventually found āplayā but then that graph and all the incomprehensible boxes!
When I first started and was looking for information I kept going to home page I thought it was a bug and almost decided to not play here luckily I clicked the chat before exiting.
All the important information gets hidden in the hamburger symbol or in settings. The home page would be so much more useful if it displayed links to important information, announcements, announcement history(or just post the announcement history on that page), maybe a bit of an explanation of the settingsā¦ or a link to the explanation of the settings lol.
I like the home page, i just wish it could have 4 thumbnails per row by default. (i have set the zoom at 67% from the browser, this allows 4 thumbnails to fit nicely on each row.)
But i can also see how meaningless that page would look for somebody who doesnt have ongoing games. As a landing page for new users it probably just looks weird and intimidating.
Iād like to revive this suggestion by @hanayeol which might be useful for players that donāt play correspondence games, or players with no ongoing correspondence games.
The idea is to incorporate the quick match game finder into the homepage.
Maybe a modification to this idea, would be only to show this quick match button on the homepage when no games are ongoing for the user.