When I click on it "New posts to you " does not change from red to *Pings* and it doesn't take me to my ping list but rather the general forum comments list.
Someone else told me yesterday that they were having trouble with their mail. It wouldn't change from alerting there were new messages.
Try it again (ping function) .. just checked and it worked from here .. can’t imagine it’d be a regional thing somehow, but who knows !