I used to think that there should only be notifications for chats, but why not have a whole bell button on the top bar and you can just click on it to see all your notifications? New forum posts on the ones you responded to or made? Wouldn't that be awesome?

I like this idea because sometimes people text me 2 weeks ago but then I check my chats today and I see that they texted me a long time ago and I'm like "Aw."