Yes, on a second thought I think you are right @pharesim. :)

I have the hunch that that feature I recall we had before within the old steemit UI was 'Notifications' and not DMs.

Yep, there was a time when we didn't need SteemWorld, GinaBot or any of those external Discord/Python bots to know who the hell interacted with us in our content. };)

Cheers!!