Improved Notifications

There's a couple things I can see that I believe would make the notifications feature even better. First, when getting a large number of notifications it can be tedious to go through all of them. It would be more intuitive to break down the notifications by thread, with the ability to expand them to see the users that posted if desired. If there's 20 notifications for the same thread, it would be nice to just see that one thread at a glance. Additionally, it would be great to have some extra control over email notifications. For example, I may want notifications for friend requests, private message, and profile message, but at the same time not care about thread notifications coming into my email. The ability to pick which items to receive email notifications for, such as profile messages, private messages, friend requests, and forum replies would be great, and as a step further being able to pick specific threads to get email notifications for would be even greater. Separately from the menu and email notifications, the notification next to a thread that indicates who last replied to it always goes to the first page. It seems to me that it would be more intuitive if it went to the last page instead, where the latest reply is at.