The Ebot thing was addressed here by BWsupport
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2892829&page_number=6

Question from member: I no longer get post notifications for the artists I'm following. What am I supposed to do now, manually search each artists gallery??

BWsupport reply: It is actually a lot easier now, this is the exact point of your activity feed.
The activity feed shows you the updates of all users you are following site wide. Good LUCK!

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