make sure you click through the “Latest” tab manually, or you will miss posts.
i just found two posts which i hadn’t seen yet, even though i was not notified about this. the unread topics seemed to have a slightly different shade of blue on the “Latest” tab, but this wasn’t very clear either.
i still trust the ‘Latest’ tab to be anti-chronological, but from now on i will just click every post on there once a week, just in case there were some new comments of which i wasn’t notified. you should too!
maybe notifications are only for threads in which you are already participating?
I just logged in after a longer while and don’t see the new-posts-star I’m used to from other Discourse forums. I get new topic counts for subscribed posts, though.
Additionally, Discourse has greatly improved on UI issues in the last versions : just compare this instance, one of mine ([1][2][3]) and the official meta one. You’ll spot the difference immediately.
What does that mean exactly? To me, Michiel just wrote down his experience/perception.
As stated already in an older thread, we’re still on a very old version of Discourse and we’ll just do one big upgrade when launching the new website instead of trying to fix bugs like these until then.
So yes, @michielbdejong’s advice is useful for the time being!