Come to think of it I used to get notifications automatically, but haven’t for awhile. Since you bring it up, I now note a “notify” button above message fields, a button that either wasn’t there or I simply never paid attention to before. If I reply and participate in a thread, that button goes to “unnotify”, implying there’s an automatic feature… apparently it’s not working.
I’ll have to check my personal profile settings to see if there is a long-forgotten all-inclusive notifications option that got inadvertently shut off.
Joel
Addendum: upon review of profile content, apparently there is no automatic notifications option for posts we aren’t actually participating in, unless we press the “notify” button when reading a thread.
