which have been disabled about a month ago

Good to hear. I had to filter out all the @alien.top threads at some point after I accidently replied to one thread here instead of reddit and my reply was not seen by the author requesting help.

Maybe. Maybe not. A number of posts (@alien.top) are just re-posting reddit.

Instead is there a good way to font lock these commas so that they are barely visible?

You can add a custom font-lock-keyword.

This kind of thing can be done as long as you can set toolbar text from a script. That script can either query emacsclient or you can arrange clock-in/out hooks to update some text file.

Either set org-use-sub-superscripts to '{} globally or put #+options: ^:{} per document. Be aware that both the options take effect after after reload.

Entity syntax involves backslash. As an alternative, you may define a custom export filter + custom font-lock keyword.

Could it be that setq cursor-type is not respected by org-mode?

Org mode does not change cursor type in Org buffers. I recommend checking your hooks.

There are also habits where you can do the habit at least every X-Y days: https://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html But that’s a bit different use-case.

IMHO, there is little point posting links if we cannot get the actual discussion going in the comments. Without discussion, you will simply turn communick.news into another https://planet.emacslife.com/.

For self posts, it is particularly important. The whole point of having the package/blog post author around is to ask her questions and get actual comment replies.

One striking difference between reddit and here so far is absence of non-link posts. On reddit, people often ask questions and get useful responses. No so much here, for now. Part of the problem might be that experienced users whom you invited (AFAIU) are less likely to ask things in general forum.