Unfortunately, I missed this because I was working a lot on music and hardly read or commented on anything last week. I’ll try to dedicate more time to literature again by Halloween.
Maybe Steemit lacks a notification bell feature for new posts from people we follow, like Facebook does.
I think it doesn't have that function because then we would be saturated with notifications... There is a function in the explorer called: "my friends", there we can see the recent publications of our friends :-)