TriX wrote:
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
This is meant for section managers. But you can use it if you want. It shows you topics created over the past 72 hours that you haven't opened, in selected sections.
You can add §num=XXX for whatever sections you want. Then bookmark that link and you can open it whenever you want to see topics broken down by sections. Once you open a topic, it disappears from that list and you can refresh and see any remaining topics. And you don't have to open respective sections.