@mr_peanut said in Dear TWS and other's that care to read:

Am I going slightly mad?

Not at all, the DM system is a lil bit busted. You sometimes get a notification but some other times you don't.
Sometimes the little bubble with the profile pic of the person dming you shows up and sometimes it doesn't. The sound of a new dm not always works, it's kinda messy but it could be worse I guess :p