I know I can just scroll past the posts, but I have no interest in seeing digital covers - it's not like something you can hold in your hands, have in your collection, go online in the future to buy a vintage copy... Its just an image floating about on the internet.
And because it's just an image with a masthead placed on it, even less effort goes into the making of it.
So posting unique threads for digital covers just seems like clutter. Some magazines pump them out constantly when there's an event on. Why not post every single one of those?
The compromise would be, if they were posted under the same thread as the actual print issue.
Are we here, on this particular section of the forum, because we're interested in print first and foremost - or are we here to consume any half-***ed content these companies churn out on their socials?