Do you mean these at the bottom of the emojis list?
They are custom badges we added. Which reminds me I need to try add some text to translate those headers.
It might be that if you mute the top category, the sub-categories are not muted too. In some cases, this may be what one wants to do since there may be topics at the top category level that one doesn’t want to follow, but still be interested in (all or some of) the sub-categories.
Can you try muting some sub-categories to check if that does the trick? If it does, then the solution is the add all sub-categories. You can do it by visiting each sub-category itself and use the 
icon, or on your preferences.
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Thank you for replying! It worked after I muted a few sub-categories.
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Can some one provide images or a video of how to save topics as favoriteson a PC, and then how to find that list? The primary function I used the forums for was to save favorite (groups/topics/sections, don’t know the correct term) for the use of tracking Round Robin participation. I cannot find many of those topics here, nor can I figure out how to bookmark them. This is a nightmare for how I manage my participation here. It does not seem like many topics moved over from the old system. Navigationally this is much harder to use. Any help at all would be much appreciated, as this has seriously disabled my ability to use the forum.
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You can see a bell symbol under each topic. You can for example select to “track” the topic.
Then you can go to burger menu:
and select tracked topics (ignore the foreign text in my screenshot)
It shows the topics that you are tracking.
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Good Morning.
It is known that I have two accounts on Postcrossing (they were created for personal and family reasons in due time, and it was not kept secret). In due course, the person of the Postcrossing “structure” , with whom I had the closest contact, was informed. It was therefore consented and authorized.
At some point someone - someone at higher level, as far as I was told - “discovered” and included “is also oiloncanvas” and “is also RFS” in Forum’s profiles. No problem, at all.
And everything has, so far, gone smoothly until the advent of this new and shinning Forum.
In fact, I find that if I access from the “old” Forum as oiloncanvas I always enter as RFS.
This is confusing and disturbing (I haven’t read anywhere - haven’t I read everything? - that there was no longer possible have more than one account (at least to the Forum “point of view”) or that, in my specific case, I can only access the Forum with one account.
In the current situation, in the new Forum, there is no place to the Postcrossing user oiloncanvas.
In short: I would like to have my situation clarified in relation to the new Forum with regard to the oiloncanvas account (which continues to function without problems - so far until now, from my knowledge - in Postcrosing. Will I also, in future, be unable to use that account (oiloncanvas)?
I will be very grateful for the clarification.
Respectful postcrossian greetings.
You will be in the forums with that username you’re currently logged into Postcrossing main site (because there is no separate login for the forum, all main site postcrossing accounts may enter this forum without a registration. They only need to accept the rules once). To switch you should log out of the account RFS here and on the Postcrossing main site. Sign in to oiloncanvas at the main site. Open this forum, then you should be logged in as oiloncanvas.
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Mea culpa: I hadn’t logged of RFS Forum account…
(All my sucessive attemps where - as it must be - uncessful).
Thank you @Cassiopheia for your enlightening and explanation (and for reminding me the “basics”).
I am still overwhelmed with all this new design and ashtoning features 
Anyway, theres a difference: in old forum is not possible to enter as oiloncanvas while being logged as RFS. That’s what confused me.
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Clarification done.
How to use the Watching / Tracking / Normal / Muted options for notifications, as well as the Bookmarks, seems to be something people struggle with at the moment… 
Maybe I should write about them in more depth for the user guide?
Let me know if you think that would be helpful!
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Hi @paulo!
Sorry for the confusion. I mean the “undefined” options under Preference --> National Flag. I’ve picked one of them and an unknown flag is shown.
Have you read this topic already?
That’s odd — I don’t get any undefined flags on mine. Can you try refreshing that page and check if they still show for you after that? Make sure to select a regular flag before doing that. If it still shows, could you please open a topic on the #postcrossing:bugs about it so I can take a closer look? Thanks!
@Feuerstuhl Thanks, I had a sinking feeling that would be the only option. Oh well, if I have to choose between privacy and convenience, privacy will win every time. 
@eta55 Hi, I don’t know how to provide images/videos, so I hope my written explanation will be clear enough. Let me know if I need to clarify anything.
Can’t find many topics: It will take a while to transfer things over. For RRs, we’ll have to wait for the hosts of the RR to transfer them to the new forum. I’m in the same boat as you…some of the RRs I participate in have moved here, while others are still in the old forum, so it’s a bit irritating to keep going back and forth. I think once everyone is on one forum, it will be easier. We just have to wait out this transition period.
Favorites: The closest thing I’ve found that’s equivalent to “Favorites” in the old forum is bookmarking the topic/section/whatever it’s called. Example: For RR, go to the RR you’re participating in and scroll to the end. Below the last post, but above “Suggested Topics”, you should find a Bookmark button. Click on it and it will ask you to name the bookmark. Usually, I just call it whatever the RR is called. Now if you want to see all your bookmarks, you can click on your icon on the top right of the screen (beside the 3 lines, search magnifier, and house). Once you click on your icon, it’ll expand and you’ll see a bell, bookmark, and envelope. If you click on the bookmark, you’ll see all the RR/tags/etc. that you’ve bookmarked.
does this work better on google chrome than firefox?
or another browser altogether?
; )