re: I finally figured this out...I think?

Hey CF

Just in case you missed the answers on the welcome thread
Reply is a bit manual at the minute

Double enter goes back to normal text

Click Follow replies to come back to the last new post since the last visit (and get the new notification icon). 

email setting are changed from clicking on your user icon in top right and clicking edit my profile then clicking email notification settings
 The default settings don't send a lot of emails, but you can turn them all off