How to Determine what to read

Agreeing with the suggestions here.  It is tooooooo many clicks to move in/out of each discussion.  The home page ... Useless.  You used one page to show 12 groups.  A lot of bad-use of space.  Could you do like Yammer, showing the groups on the side, beside the posts, with a count number?  And have the number be reflective of what I've browsed past?

I'm not into these large pretty group buttons.  I cannot do a quick scan of items in this interface.  I learned to scan text quickly, pulling out what was important.  Showing too little text per page makes one page more often (means focusing harder to not lose one's place on the page), then you fill the space with boxes?  Frustrating comes to mind here.  I'm trying to adapt, but very difficult to do so.