slickrcbd: Am I missing something? How do you even subscribe to forum reply notifications? I don't see any such options.
There'll be a purple dot show in the navigation bar due to me replying to this. If you would go to community => forum replies, before seeing this reply, this thread would also show up there.
It used to be - in a long forgotten past which is now only spoken of in hushed whispers at the bi-annual meeting for controversial legends and myths - that when you viewed the post which triggered the reply-notification, that the purple dot would go away. Alas, this is no longer the case, for all must worship the purple dot, and only the most arcane incantations can temporarily blind us to its magnificence.