I'm not sure what happened, but for the last few days I'd had no notifications for new replies (which were coming in thick and fast), and it was absolute bliss.

Unfortunately I had a power cut and my PC rebooted, and now the notifications are back (including those that weren't showing before), so I assume it was an error on my end but still - is it possible to make this a real option?

In an ideal world it would be like on reddit where you could switch off notifications per post and even per thread, but I'll take an all or nothing option at this point.