The subscription thingie was kinda hard to find - but I did just now subscribe to a couple of states and can see the threads in the sidebar. I think it looks pretty cool. I hadn't noticed the feature before you pointed it out on this thread.
Ah, that's probably 50% of the problem here. I haven't communicated everything quite clearly, particularly the tools that would help such as the subscription stuff.
I need a spokesperson, hehe.