So what do you think about the new digest format?
Sep 20, 2023 19:36:24 #
burkphoto wrote:
Click the "home" button, upper left of your screen. What do you see? Should be just the sections you're subscribed to.It's New Coke, recycled. br br Sometimes, monkeyi... (show quote)
Sep 20, 2023 20:14:19 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Click the "home" button, upper left of your screen. What do you see? Should be just the sections you're subscribed to.
Thanks, Linda! I may resort to that until the inevitable restoration of the digest to its former look.
Sep 20, 2023 20:31:19 #
burkphoto wrote:
Aaack...Thanks, Linda! I may resort to that until the inevitable restoration of the digest to its former look.
Sep 21, 2023 01:21:41 #
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
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
You can use this page:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/unread-topic-list-by-section?sectnum=1§num=5§num=7
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.
Sep 21, 2023 02:00:16 #
Sep 21, 2023 08:02:09 #
Change for the sake of change is ridiculous. People like consistency not necessarily better. I feel like I'm using a Microsoft product. For those wanting the latest and greatest they could easily go to the category a see everything. Doesn't digest (as in readers digest) indicate it's a brief summary? At this point why have the digest at all?
Sep 21, 2023 08:15:55 #
TriX wrote:
For me it’s a PIA, but what do YOU think?
I'll try it a little more but at first glance, I agree. I always liked having each of my chosen topics separate so if I wasn't in a mood to look at the "Birds" I could skip by them all. Now it's a complete mish mash of postings with no discernible order and I have to look at the fine print to see what topic it used to be in. Supposedly this system gets more people to look at more postings but in my case, it's less.
Sep 21, 2023 09:15:48 #
Sep 21, 2023 09:18:47 #
CWW
Loc: North Jersey
TriX wrote:
For me it’s a PIA, but what do YOU think?
What were they thinking…terrible!
Sep 21, 2023 09:47:10 #
Admin wrote:
You can use this page: br br https://www.uglyhedg... (show quote)
Thank you for the information!
Sep 21, 2023 09:49:00 #
Sep 21, 2023 09:53:07 #
Please go back to the old format. This is confusing and more work. The other format was organized and easy to follow.
Sep 21, 2023 09:54:51 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Click the "home" button, upper left of your screen. What do you see? Should be just the sections you're subscribed to.
Linda's right. At first, I was really dismayed to see everything in a jumble but as Linda suggested, I clicked on "Home" and there were my old topics in the same order as before. The miniscule difference is, the topics don't show the postings; I have to click on each topic to see them. I can live with that.
Sep 21, 2023 10:00:53 #
GEngel-usmc wrote:
… also… sucks, don’t like it, harder to find things .
Totally agree. And it’s not just a matter of getting used to something new. It’s a pita.
Sep 21, 2023 10:01:37 #
I'm completely lost! The dates are all mixed up! Personally, I read the Digest every morning and keep up-to-date.
This morning is a frustrating mish-mash and, unhappily, a turn-off.
I'm so disappointed!
This morning is a frustrating mish-mash and, unhappily, a turn-off.
I'm so disappointed!
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