Yes, I'm seeing this too, it's extremely annoying.
As for emails, I rarely receive them, but the notifications usally work, although they sometimes get stuck and refuse to go away when read.
Other problems include
- The number of replies to a post on the overview page is often incorrect (indicating too few)
- New posts do not appear at the top of the page
- Old posts get stuck at the top of the page
- Some time ago, page 1 on the Lightroom forum didn't change for three days (all the new posts were inbetween old posts on pages 2, 3, and 4)
Even if we're stuck with Jive, (as it seems) it should be possible to fix all these things - they have all started happening recently.