Hi @DeanMarkTaylor, thanks for chiming in!
Honestly, I find all this needlessly complicated. Maybe I’m not representative of most users, but my needs are pretty simple. I want to be able to enable email notifications:
( ) Every time someone mentions me (in any topic), replies to my post (in any topic), or post in a topic I created (optionally: unless I’m currently active on the site).
( ) For every foreign post (optionally: even my own posts).
I understand that you need to cater to a wide audience with varied needs, but maybe this area could use some compromising for the sake of simplification…