set up another hotmail email purely for this website, and change your email on your profile to the email youve just made then you will get the notification but because you dnt use that email it doesent matter that you have a million emails notifying you there has been a thread.
end of the day JV has no intention of making an app (unless his opinion has changed since the last time this thread poped up which i highly doubt) so its never going to happen. unless someone else is an app builder and jv gives them permision to build an app for this site.