[@veelow Participant 11 years ago]

I’m not using any plugins of that sort.

Subscriptions might be the issue: I have subscribed to FORUMS, but not to any individual topics.

Does a forum subscription automatically subscribe one to each topic within that forum? Or do the two features interact in some other way?

Also, am I using terms the wrong way? I had believed that
“subscriptions”=bbpress=emails,
“notifications”=buddypress=mouseover-able numbers in balloons
Yes?