So what do you think about the new digest format? (Page 2): 69 comments and five topics created in 7.5 years. Do you supposed Admin finds any value in your opinion?

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Sycamore Hank wrote:

Crap

69 comments and five topics created in 7.5 years. Do you supposed Admin finds any value in your opinion?

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

Linda From Maine wrote:

Seven comments on UHH in seven years? Does your vote count?

Never had before.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Linda From Maine wrote:

Seven comments on UHH in seven years? Does your vote count?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Linda From Maine wrote:

69 comments and five topics created in 7.5 years. Do you supposed Admin finds any value in your opinion?

BebuLamar

Linda From Maine wrote:

Seven comments on UHH in seven years? Does your vote count?

I don't know and I think I made a lot of posts but I never knew about the digest until now. So I guess the more people post the less they use the digest??

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

BebuLamar wrote:

I don't know and I think I made a lot of posts but I never knew about the digest until now. So I guess the more people post the less they use the digest??

I do believe you're onto something, Bebu! Here I've been spending years trying to understand why someone would want to read yesterday's news when there's an up-to-the-minute alternative, available via a single mouse click.

Thank you for finally clearing up the mystery!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Linda From Maine wrote:

I do believe you're onto something, Bebu! Here I've been spending years trying to understand why someone would want to read yesterday's news when there's an up-to-the-minute alternative, available via a single mouse click.

Thank you for finally clearing up the mystery!

Juan Dinero Loc: Southeast Colorado

I don't care for it at all the old one is so much better for me.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Juan Dinero wrote:

I don't care for it at all the old one is so much better for me.

Five comments and 15 days of participation? You've barely scratched the surface!

Try this far-superior alternative:

1. go to all sections at bottom of this page and click "subscribe" to any of interest.
2. next time you log in, simply click "newest topics" at the top of this page. This list is updated in real time.

Yes, the sections are all together, but how many will you subscribe to? Three, five?

TonyP Loc: New Zealand

Shellback wrote:

I don’t use it - I open UHH to Newest Topic. I am subscribed to the sections I’m interested in and I see all the posts in order - for me, this works great.

Me neither. Exactly.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Linda From Maine wrote:

Five comments and 15 days of participation? You've barely scratched the surface!

Try this far-superior alternative:

1. go to all sections at bottom of this page and click "subscribe" to any of interest.
2. next time you log in, simply click "newest topics" at the top of this page. This list is updated in real time.

Yes, the sections are all together, but how many will you subscribe to? Three, five?

So I’ll address that. The advantage of the digest (to me) is that it groups the sections you’re subscribed to, so you can go directly to the topics in the section that interests you at that moment and scan the sections in sequence - saves steps over opening each section one at a time or having to scan through everything in new topics... The newest topics mixes them all together, and if you subscribe to photos and BIF, then those dominate the posts and you have to scan through them all if you’re looking for something in the main discussion. Of course you can open a page, go to sections and the choose the desired section (which I do occasionally), but for me, I prefer the groups, even if they’re not “up to the minute”.

I do occasionally go to new topics in the evening, but in the morning, after I read The NY Times, I like to look at the digest. Just a personal preference. “Far superior” to you, not to me. I’m subscribed to 20 sections (just counted), and many of them have no posts or just 1-2 posts per day, but now I’ll never open 20 sections a day, so that occasional post in astronomy or sports likely won’t get read.

Cheers

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

TriX wrote:

So I’ll address that. The advantage of the digest ... (show quote)

Thanks, Chris. Yes, "far superior" is obviously an opinion, not a Great Truth (and offered tongue in cheek, btw)

I personally dislike the thought of having popularity or time posted be the criteria of what's included in the digest and what's not.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Ed48 Loc: Superior, Wisconsin

I agree with you completely!!!
Ed48

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

TriX wrote:

For me it’s a PIA, but what do YOU think?

It's New Coke, recycled.

Sometimes, monkeying with something that radically is a mistake.

I read Admin's reasoning, but I don't get it. I use my iPhone and Mac about the same way. The site looks the same on both. But I can type much faster on the Mac, so I use UHH on the Mac more than I do on the phone.

It would be nice to see the top posts in the categories to which I'm subscribed, in the order I want to read the categories, without having to scroll to the bottom of the page, go to "All Sections", and then find each category from the master list.