Hi, so I’m now self-hosting discuss.villagekit.com from my homelab in New Zealand, on a Raspberry Pi 4B. If you have any issues with this website or the server, please let me know, here or with my email at mikey.nz. 
Cool. 
How often do the message notifications get sent out? I got an email about a reply in March about a week ago or so.
The emails were failing before ( Sign up confirmation email does not seem to work - #9 by mikey ), is fixed now. You should get an email notification when you’d expect to. 