@MevetS but every post gets a post in the Blog category with the full text of the post and links back to the original. Any comment left on the post becomes a forum post, and forum responses to that post show up on the blog as comments. I don’t think I can make it any more integrated than that… the fact is that people have stopped commenting on my blog posts as well. Interaction has just dried up.
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