# Activating "bootstrap mode" on an old community

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-bootstrap-mode-on-an-old-community/46563>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 28, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-bootstrap-mode-on-an-old-community/46563 "2016-06-28T13:12:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-bootstrap-mode-on-an-old-community/46563/3 "2016-06-30T11:42:12Z")

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I don’t think I’ll go ahead with this. I only now realised that the digest mode doesn’t really work the way I though it did:

> [@What are some simple ways to improve digest emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-some-simple-ways-to-improve-digest-emails/33224/6):
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> This is not what digest is for, so you should open a new feature request for this. What digest is for: attracting inactive users back to the site by showing them the coolest and most interesting stuff that happened while they were gone.

I thought it was a digest like that of Google Groups or traditional email lists, where a daily email makes sense (if there are new posts. But since the digest (renamed “summary” as of 1.6) only surface “top” posts, a daily email won’t make sense.

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