I tend to avoid AfC, and #wikipedia-en-help because the people who tend to it also tend to really violate WP:OWN in a good-faith and incompetent manner. I'm sure the majority of articles in AfC will eventually pass muster, even if they don't when they are first reviewed. The few who can't is what makes me very, very wary of helping with AfC backlog.
I tend towards new and random page patrol, and vandal fighting myself. I've somewhat recently downloaded Huggle on my mac. There was some issues with Huggle starting at first ("Huggle needed to shut down" kind of messages), but since Wine Bottler updated, I haven't had any issues with that.