I am fairly new too and it took me a while to figure out how to use it. One of the things that might be helpful for you us when you do find a thread on Christmas or Easter cactus you can click on follow this thread. That way if a new post comes up it will automatically notify you. The other thing that I really like is for important information that I will refer back to over and over again is the star icon at the bottom of every post. You can click on a post you want to save for some reason on the star and it will save on your own records page.