No idea what most people do, but I keep reading up till reveals. I have holiday stuff to do so I can't just sit down and read all day the instant the archive opens, I read stories I might not have otherwise gotten to based on recs, and I like a lot of fandoms so I always have quite a lot of stories I'd at least like to take a look at.

Also, though I do open tabs, I don't automatically and only open tabs for every story I mean to check out. It gets too unwieldy. I open a few tabs, then do the rest of my reading by returning to the main page and browsing fandoms whenever I feel like reading.