Do you mean watched? I'm not aware of any issues with alerts currently. I believe the site won't show you alerts on watched threads if you haven't visted it in a while to prevent spam. Try unwatching and watching them again.
That hasn't existed since the early 2010s, great memory. I was actually thinking about this recently, the dice addon is massively high on my list to fix and update since there aren't many for our forum software (like 2?) and both haven't had updates in ages/are abandoned or not getting new...
One more update. I investigated further and saw the part in our software that is old and conflicting, so I've muted it for now, and it seems that Fontawesome has let me switch the site back to Fontawesome 6 (we do use some 6 icons, like the shield with the heart for the moderator ribbon)...
Yeah...Fontawesome keeps releasing new versions is fine and in theory it should just silently update with the new icons, but our forum software is old, but that's a different conversation for a different day. We have ideas and plans on how to resolve FA being more compatible with posts. I love...
So the issue appears to be on FA's end. We've been using or at-least were supposed to be using FontAwesome 5 but the settings in our fontawesome account (we pay for this, so the site can have this) were set to 6 automatically and the site software just isn't ready to provide 6 just yet.
If you click on the words disable me right above the activity typing bar, it just takes you to the page where you can do it. It was just a quick and handy link.
I'll see if I can make a profile toggle where you can turn that off. Will take me a few days, but I think I can do it. It wouldn't actually be messing with the physical code of the feature, it's just a visual style thing, so we control the site's theme.
That just came with the update, its not something we actively decide to turn on. We do use a software called xenForo and third-party mods, fixes, developers and so forth. This was one such third-party update. I can't speak for the programmer who made it or for xenforo, but I assume its because...