Hello there, thanks for asking this great question. Yes, in the past version of the community, it was possible to filter discussion by 'read' and 'unread' and I know that is valuable.
The new way of keeping track of information is handled by Tracking and Following. You can only mark items you are Tracking read or unread.
Tracking is designed for critical "need to know" information.
You'll see a blue "Track in Communications" button in the right navigation of the SAS Procedures community landing page. Click that and all activity from the forum will be posted to your https://communities.sas.com/communications page. You can access this page in the top navigation. The icon with the down-arrow will turn green whenever there is a new item. You can mark items read or unread there. You can "Track" whole communities or even just individual discussion threads.
"Following" a community will send updates to https://communities.sas.com/activity (accessible in top nav; first icon).
So in the case of SAS Procedures, if that is your main community, I would recommend clicking the "Track in Communications" on that page: https://communities.sas.com/community/support-communities/sas_procedures. You can even set your default view to be "Unread Only", if that is a benefit for you.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if I can answer additional questions.
I found this documentation from the software behind this community helpful in explaining this, so I wanted to quote it here:
Following vs Tracking: What's the Difference?
You have two ways to keep important things on your radar: you can follow activity or track it. Tracking is for crucial need-to-know. Following is for keeping up in a looser sense.
Tracking routes activity from individual documents, discussions, and places into your Communitications page, where you'll see it alongside @mentions, direct messages, discussions you contributed to, and any other activity that you're directly involved in. The Communications page alerts you of how many new items you have, and also lets you read-track your updates so you can be sure of reading everything that comes in. Click Track in Communications in the Action menu for any item you want to track. To stop tracking it, just click Stop Tracking. The updates you have will stay in your Communications, but no new updates will be shown there. (Note that if you track a space, you won't also be tracking its subspaces.)
Following filters your activity stream so you see the people, places, and items you're interested in, but without the urgency of tracking. Just click Follow in the Action menu for any item that interests you. As the people and groups you follow create new documents and make discussions or blog posts, and as documents you follow are updated, any updates about them will flow into your Activity page under Followed Activity. You can use following to keep up with people, places, and documents you're interested in, but not absolutely required to keep up with. To stop following an item, click Following so the button changes to Follow.
