I'm not getting notification emails, but the Admin told me that it might have to do with my registered Yahoo email address. I haven't noticed any colors as far as icons go.
*edit* I just changed my registered email address, maybe that will help things. Time will tell.
I don't bother with the notification emails....The icons on the forums are greyed out when there aren't any new posts. If there are new posts the icons change to orange. When you open up the forum, the threads that have new posts are highlighted in the same fashion.
For the last few days this hasn't been working for me.
I just rebooted the computer, and it seems to be working again. Go figure. :roll: