Oh my goodness, I never noticed the gray/black! Thanks for educating me on this.
I guess there is no way to sort/filter the list of topics by that unread criterion, am I right?
- Latest - is in order it was posted, whether read or not (though at least ‘new’ topics are marked)
- Unread - is only for entirely unread topics, apparently. If there is a new response to an old topic it doesn’t appear here.
I think that Latest’s current behavior is sufficient for my aims, though, because if I’m reasonably caught up on reading I can skim the front page or two for any black headings; I don’t need it to be precisely ordered by “read/unread” status. So I think this will work! Again, many thanks!