Your ‘prize posts’ also curate good content and that is valuable for forum readers, I think
I think this was a relatively valuable part of the Prize as well. However, the weekly Forum Digest now gets about 700 opens/​week, which is well over the total number of views the average Forum Prize post received. If people want to track good content, the Digest is a good way to do that. (It’s much less selective than the Prize, but still seems like a superior form of curation overall, given how many good posts didn’t receive prizes.)
However, the Mailchimp archive only goes back 20 issues or so — I’ve made a note to put up a page displaying all past Digests at some point, to make the curation more complete.
I think this was a relatively valuable part of the Prize as well. However, the weekly Forum Digest now gets about 700 opens/​week, which is well over the total number of views the average Forum Prize post received. If people want to track good content, the Digest is a good way to do that. (It’s much less selective than the Prize, but still seems like a superior form of curation overall, given how many good posts didn’t receive prizes.)
However, the Mailchimp archive only goes back 20 issues or so — I’ve made a note to put up a page displaying all past Digests at some point, to make the curation more complete.