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Thanks for answering. That's not very intuitive, it should then have said something like "New in Watched:" or "Watched: 1 new" or something similarly non-verbose to save screen space. I had this idea and tried it on my setup, however I never saw those red numbers (of new posts) because I myself was the author of the new replies and therefore had already seen them. Does the "Subscriptions" work the same way, btw? And if not, what does the number to the right of it mean?

We assume you know that already.

Not necessarily. I may have marked ("Watch") a topic and then forgot about it. Seeing a number up there would remind me that I wanted to see the resolution of some topic some time ago. But no matter.

...Mostly once people know how it works...

This is exactly what I meant when I said it wasn't very intuitive 🙂

And no – there is no real point in announcing a new post if the user themselves wrote it.

This is granted and expected. I was just testing the function on my server and forgot/slipped my mind that it would be useless to announce my own posts to me, so I though that it was supposed to show the number of subscriptions. It all became clear when you said

The number represents how many of them have received new posts since you last looked at them.

I'm also glad it's all clear now with this particular issue.

Subscriptions is on eof the most used plugins we have.

Yes, but my topic was about the "Watches" plugin, not "Subscriptions" 🙂

Come on, you needn't be so defensive. I'm a paid customer and I have the right for my feedback (unintuitive - which matters to me, because a significant % of my visitors are not web-savvy) to be accepted in a business-like form, not along the line of "your problem is insignificant because we never... well, almost never get this feature criticized".