Switching to digest mode

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#1

Many of you were using the Yahoo group in digest mode, where you’d receive a daily digest of new messages rather than a separate email for each message. In the migration to Discourse, you’ve been switched to mailing list mode, which sends you an email for each new message. Here’s now to enable a digest:

First, click your user icon in the upper-right corner:
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From the drop-down menu, click on your username, then on Preferences:
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On the left, click on Emails:
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Uncheck mailing list mode, and set the summary to whatever frequency you like. Then click Save Changes:
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#2

My screen looks nothing like this. Also, I have no idea how to initiate a new post.

#3

Your user icon, of course, isn’t going to be a big yellow D; it’s rather going to be what shows up next to your username. So you’d start by clicking at the upper right here:
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That bring up a drop-down menu that looks like this:
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Click on your username on the left side of that menu, and it will look like this:
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Choose Preferences from there and you’ll see this:
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Click Emails on the left and you’ll see this:

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You’d use the “New Topic” button, toward the upper-right corner of the page:
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Or send an email to spareoom@talk.spare-oom.com.

#4

Thanks for your patience. When click on my username at the upper right, I don’t get the menu you show but rather a different one asking about Google preferences. And when I click on it on the left, I get nothing. So I am still lost.