I've added a "reply" link to the full-text RSS feeds, and a "more" link to the partial-text (I suppose they could get a "reply" link too, but I think the idea is to keep them short). If you subscribe to, say, Bloglines, you can pretty much read and reply through it. It's kind of cool, at least if you normally use Bloglines. I do, for nearly all my webcomics, and a lot of newsletters and whatnot, so having Phoenyx stuff come up in it is possibly more useful to me than having the webforum. However, if you're not already reading other XML sources, it's probably not worth taking up a reader just for the Phoenyx; the webforum will incorporate all the relevant features soon anyway. Also, Sysadmin Carl has advised me that flamingo is the same class of machine as firebird, just with slightly less memory, so my report yesterday was kind of wrong, and flamingo isn't as sad as I've been letting on (or firebird is sad too, depending). Either way, roc is fast, and it'll all be good. Lastly, we're running a late-alpha-to-early-beta NNTP server. News servers are notoriously standards-flexible, though, and so far ours isn't. Works fine with XNews, though it's still very noticeably slow. When that's done, that'll bring us to three-and-a-half (newsfeeds are read-only, relying on the web forum as a reply mechanism) methods of participating in Phoenyx groups.
