What do they mean?
(Unrelated to your question) Can I say your avatar is beautiful. Daffodils are so pretty. I used to grow them when I lived back East.
Thank you so much, that is very kind of you to say 
The previous home owners (my former bassist and his family) had planted them, along with a few other perennials. Both my PIC and I have solidly black thumbs, and so each spring it is an utter joy to watch the daffodils and croci pop up after a long, dreary winter.
The front of our house doesn’t get a lot of sun, so they are always a bit later than other flower beds on our street. I love how all the colors are coming out now - white, pink, purple, yellow, green 
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It’s been a weird weather winter here in SE PA–mild and very wet. Apparently this is prime daffodil weather as it has been a banner year with daffodils bursting out everywhere. (We didn’t get the usual croci explosion, but the hyacinths lasted a good long time this season).
Back to topic . . . What are these “red numbers” you reference? I haven’t noticed any myself.
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Haven’t they always been there? I thought the orange-to-me (red-to-you) reflected that there was a high number of “forks” given on the thread? I could be wrong (again).
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True. The more replies and views a topic has the redder the numbers appear. The view/replies threshold and the parameters that turn a topic “hot” are determined by the admin. Here’s a Discourse link if anyone is interested: https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-does-a-red-reply-count-mean/256007
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I know it’s not new, I was just curious to find out what it meant bc I couldn’t for the life of me figure it out.
Now I know
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Also the numerals of the views indicator seems to get more bold during the progression.
As for the replies number, that can go red even with just a small number of replies, if there are also a high ratio of likes on those replies and/or on the OP. By hovering for the pop-up explanations, I’ve seen 3 categories - “high” like to post ratio, “very high”, and “extremely high”, with, as you mentioned, the redness (for me it’s orangeness) of the numbers increasing with each category.
If you hover over a black number of replies, the popup just tells you “there are X number of replies”.
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Well, now I’m totes confused again. But don’t mind me 
