Following and notifications for non-game topics?
You don't get notifications for individual game threads . the colours indicate if there are new public or private messages (or both). As long as you have access to a specific thread, you get notified of it (but it won't tell you if it's one thread, or a dozen of them). Inside a game, you can see which threads are actually updated.
The same applies to the public forums, but since there are no private message threads in those forums, only red numbers are shown.
All users have access to all threads in any forum that they haven't been banned from, so any new post will light up the notification (note also, that you can not actually mark any individual thread, anywhere on the site, as being "followed").
This message was last edited by the user at 20:45, Mon 22 Jan 2018.