# Visual clues in Topic lists **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum Guide & Feedback\ **Tags:** forum-tips\ **Created:** [July 7, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105 "2024-07-07T13:18:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105/1 "2024-07-07T13:18:18Z")
I’ve been on _The Forum_ a while now, but I’m still discovering things in the interface. For example, some of the Topics listed below a thread are in “normal” type, while others are grayed out. At first I thought the gray ones are just aging out, but that isn’t always the case. - What is discourse trying to tell me by graying out listed Topic titles? Sometimes a listed Topic title has an Ansible-colored circle at the right end. That circle may or may not have a number in it. I’ve got a guess, but I’m asking for a friend… - What’s the meaning of an Ansible-colored circle and optional number within it next to a Topic title? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![chris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/chris/32/293_2.png) [@chris](https://forum.ansible.com/u/chris)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105/2 "2024-07-07T13:44:03Z")
Greyed out topics are ones that you have read all the posts in? The coloured circle indicates a new topic, one that you haven’t read any posts from. Where do you see a coloured circle with a number in it, I can’t find one of these? ---
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105/3 "2024-07-08T12:50:25Z")
Oh, wow. How did I never hover over the blue circles? They literally tell me what they mean. Still not sure about the grayed out titles, though. ---
**Author:** ![iyami5](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/iyami5/32/3449_2.png) [@iyami5](https://forum.ansible.com/u/iyami5)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105/4 "2024-07-08T13:23:52Z")
Like the other person mentioned they are topics you already read. ---
**Author:** ![chris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/chris/32/293_2.png) [@chris](https://forum.ansible.com/u/chris)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105/5 "2024-07-08T15:05:01Z")
The only numbers in circles I can think of in Discourse are the ones for [link clicks 👉](https://meta.discourse.com/) 👈 like the one here. ---
**Author:** ![utoddl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/utoddl/32/249_2.png) [@utoddl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/utoddl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105/6 "2024-07-08T15:49:51Z")
Like this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/1/17669e55d2b36032357c712c8470fddcd99fece6.png) ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/visual-clues-in-topic-lists/7105/7 "2024-07-16T08:25:52Z")
That’s a topic you are “tracking”: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/c/c0e90360262e90a50716d41f83fa94b65e6078b6.png) IIRC this is the default behaviour for a topic that you read to the end of, it marks it as tracked so you see new replies.