It would be great to enable notifications in the ideas portal ... for example I would like to be notified when an idea I voted on has new comments added to it ... otherwise I do not know if there is any conversations happening
Ideas portals support notifications for any ideas that you are subscribed to. When you vote for or submit an idea you are automatically subscribed to it. This has been supported for quite a while but this idea status was out of date. If there is anything else you need for idea notifications, please submit a new idea to let us know.
Ideas do not provide a good feedback mechanism to the community to promote more engagement. An idea portal user currently does not have an ability to follow activity on their idea.