Dear Keeping-On,
Welcome first. “Unread” can often mean the person who posted the original discussion hasn’t logged back in to read the replies. There isn’t a way to know if your post has been answered,but to log in.
Whenever you post a discussion or reply to a discussion, the site must read your post to ensure or censor if the content is appropriate and then they will post it on the forum. This may take an hour or two. And then it appears on the site.
Any responses to your discussion or if you have replied to another discussion will make a number appear next to the bell icon up the top. This is your notification page so you can see what has been actioned on the post. The hearts on the discussion is just to support the post. It is an equivalent to a like. Others will tell you,you have been replied to and/or someone else has also replied to the same discussion.
I get what you are trying to say however,this isn’t a chat room. It is a forum. So instead of DM-ing, it is emailing essentially.
It is still a great place to write and express yourself,it is just slower then you may have thought it to be.
There are filters to choose the newest posts. And there is a encouragement that you shouldn’t only post about your self. You should try to answer others too. Even just for solidarity. Please remember to answer any posts by using the user name of the poster you are referring to, if you don’t it can be impossible to figure out what reply is for who. The posts don’t get connected under the original answering posters post. They just get posted one after another.
I hope this has cleared a little bit more about the forum. But you do have to have patient.
ABC01
