A couple of minor (I hope!) changes that would greatly improve my DU4 experience

[Emrys]

9. OK, I tried your solution to my second issue

With regard to subscribing to the Editorials forum -- there is a way to do this without receiving the left sidebar notifications. If you go to your Feed page -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=feed -- you can uncheck "Subscriptions (Forums)" in the left sidebar and those notifications will no longer appear. This is a bit unwieldy at the moment -- currently it's not refined enough that you can uncheck specific forums (which I think would be super useful) but I hope to improve on that in the future.

I did what you said, and sure enough it cleaned up the sidebar - but that wasn't the problem I was trying to solve. I wanted a way to have my favourite subforums listed on the left without receiving distracting notifications.

I still get "My Stuff" lighting up whenever somebody posts an OP on a subforum I subscribe to. I have no way of knowing if it's lit up because of a new OP or a reply to one of my posts unless I click on "My Stuff", so I can either click on it every time it lights up, or risk missing a reply to me - not a helpful choice, and a regular minor annoyance that may get more grating over time.

Without addressing my first point about a separate post reply button, I guess a solution would be to make it so that turning off subscription notifications also stopped "My Stuff" lighting up. If I don't want to be notified, I don't want to be notified at all.