The activity tab appears to be vestigial like an appendix. I’ve accidentally hit it numerous times in the past and gotten no results from my query.
However, I “learned” FR on the comments tab and stay there, it’s much more entertaining to see all comments in the order that they’ve occurred. I get exposure to topics I’d have never clicked on, on the basis of the headline and brief excerpt.
To the downside, you’ll see a lot of stuff you’re not interested in too, on the comments tab, since you’re seeing them all. It’s also very, very easy to drag a thread off topic, since you’re not really looking at the topic but the comments and possibly have never even seen the topic of the thread, just the title with the most recent comment.
Setting preferences to just “Articles” is boring to me, I’d miss most of the fun.
It’s also very, very easy to drag a thread off topic, since you’re not really looking at the topic but the comments and possibly have never even seen the topic of the thread, just the title with the most recent comment.