Your unread topics appear here.
By default, topics are considered unread and will show unread counts 1 if you:
Or if you have explicitly set the topic to Tracked or Watched via the 
in each topic.
That sounds familiar, but I haven’t been able to reproduce it or find it.
My default URL for these boards is: https://discussion.fool.com/
Do you have something else?
That message comes up after you have read or dismissed all of you notifications messages (usually in threads you have posted on).
When you have no more posting in your preferred list, what message would you like? Blank screen? Blue screen? No response?
Usually I click on the fool cap upper left for a list of boards with notes on which ones have unread messages, new messages. Doing this lets you monitor all new posts.