BuddyPress.org

First of all, a big thank you to all contributors for this useful and traight out mindblowing software! And for free! Wow! :

In general I am not much of a coder, but I can understand some, and I have two questions:

QUESTION 1.
About buddypress bubble notification (not email) when there is a bbpress answer to a topic you either started or are subscribed to:
– This does not work on my new site – should it? As buddypress and bbpress are so welded together, it would surprise me if this “bubble notification on forum replies” is not thought about before, but if it isn’t – what would I want to do, to notify users via the bubble when someone replies to a topic they either started or subscribed to?
– I have enabled the notification addon in buddypress, and I reveive emails, it just doesn’t notify via the bubble.

QUESTION 2.
When a new member register, and is active – either in bbpress or in buddypress / groups or updates his profile or something else – he is still not visible under sitewide activity: New members. This does not work on a clean install of newest wordpress, newest buddypress and whatever theme. I’ve tested many.

Is this a bug, or do I have to do something to the settings to make this work?