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Is RSS the only way to see replies to posts I'm interested in ?

I believe so. Unlike Ideascale (which isn't really necessarily a Yamaha site, as far as I know) - this forum doesn't let you flag threads to send you emails when there's a reply.

RSS just allows the forum to be parsed by something other than the website/forum backend -- so if your RSS reader can do what you want -- then you're "set".

In-band, there's no real support for what you're asking as far as I know.

Since Yamaha is presenting ideascale to its customers - maybe pointing out how useful and great that site is would provide a "template" to follow in improving yamahasynth.com -- IF that's how you would prefer the forum to work.

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I also miss an email subscription/notification functionality.

Registered also on https://yamahasynth.ideascale.com/a/dtd/email-subscription-notification-functionality-on-yamahasynth-com/267740-45978

I believe so. Unlike Ideascale (which isn't really necessarily a Yamaha site, as far as I know) - this forum doesn't let you flag threads to send you emails when there's a reply.

While you can't turn on email notification for an individual thread, it may help that you can turn on email notification for a category. For example, at https://www.yamahasynth.com/forum/modx-series-synthesizers you'll see right under the heading (immediately above the topics list) there are two options: Subscribe to the RSS feed and Subscribe via email. I've never tried it, though, so I don't know whether that subscription only notifies you of new topics, or also of updates to old ones.