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Sounds like a caching issue and I tried to duplicate -- what's new showed (1) then I click forums and it jumped to (4)When I leave the forum I always click the "Mark Forums Read" button to come back to a clean slate. When I return, the are no personal alerts or What's new alerts showing. I click the header or Forums button once and the personal alert show up. I click again and now change. I click a third time and the What's new alerts show up. This started happening a week or so ago