Today we are launching email notifications of comment replies. When posting a comment, you will be able to choose if you would like to receive an email notification whenever there is a reply to your comment. Simply check the box in the comment editor to turn the feature on for this particular comment. We hope this will help you keep up with the comment threads you care about the most.
We have tried hard to design the feature so you get an appropriate amount of email. Instead of a global setting enabling or disabling the feature, there is the finer control of a checkbox with each comment allowing you to specify if you would like to be notified each time you post a comment. And with each email that arrives you can choose to stop the notifications for this comment by clicking on a link at the bottom of the email.
We will be rolling this feature out slowly, to make sure the system can scale to meet the increased number of emails it will need to send. So, you might not see the check box immediately. Over time we will be adding more and more randomly chosen users to those who can use the feature until it is available to everybody.
Enjoy!