Or even a way to be notified (or subscribed) via email of new post in a particular forum.  I'm assuming (hopefully correctly) that one receives an email if someone replies to their post?

When the new site first started I was notified.  Now I'm not.  It seems there was a place to click on your reply if you wanted to be notified.  That is now gone.  Also you can click on your name and there is a link to the subscriptions page.  Unfortunately, it gives you an error at this time.  Don't know what's happening.

MuchAdo,

Yeah, I don't see anything like that to specify I want to be told about replies to this thread that I started, if anything, I would have thought that something like that would be automatic.  Also seeing just a blank page when I click on the subscriptions link.  Who knows. Hopefully someone will be able to tell us what is going on. Maybe just not fully implemented functionality yet.