Missing a single comment. If you have fifteen notices when you come online, open notices count doen fifteen which is one full page. Read the last notice at the bottom. Notice whose post or journal it is so you do not lose track. When done go back to notices. You should now see either zero new notices or a normal number meaning there are bunch of old old posts that never got read. My number is always 1 when I have all notices cleared. Years ago I missed clearing a post as read.

so now you read #15 so hit that notices and go to the one directly above the #15 post or notification and read that. Slowly make your way up thru all the fifteen unread posts you had at beginning. If new posts have suddenly showed up while reading thats why you want to know which one you saw then read to keep moving up one post or notification at a time to top. Once done at top you have a zero or your normal number like my 1 and have read all current stuff. 

if you leave, when you come back those numbers might have changed. Time to start the climb from bottom to top all over again.

hugs happy reading and not missing any of my johrnals or posts going to my friends journals.