I logged into the forum and my character portrait was changed to another of my toons. I went to change it back and now all my notifications are gone. I switched to other portraits with same result. Only by going back to the portrait that was there when I logged in do I get my notifications back.
This phenomenon is not the way things used to work. It appears that this ‘new’ way of using portraits would allow me to post as though I were different people which is something this forum does not need imo. I would like this problem corrected.