As part of the upgrade fever--I always seem to get motivated to do something new when I upgrade the site--I've enabled the trackback module. The URL for trackbacks can now be found under every post. To send a trackback from Kairosnews, edit your post and use the "Trackback URL" field at the bottom of the page for editing the post, then submit it. You'll have to verify that the trackback was received (there's a patch to add in autodiscovery, but it hasn't been approved yet).

Next, instead of stories and forums, now all logged in Kairosnews members can submit blogs. There are a couple of advantages in using this setup instead:

• From any user page (click any username), there's a "view recent blog entries" page which takes you to a unique url for that user which displays their blog posts. There's also a link underneath each post.
• At the bottom of each user's blog listing page is an xml button for an RSS feed for their posts only.

Know that no story or forum post was lost in this conversion. I converted them all over to blogs. There are no more stories or forum posts on Kairosnews :)

***If you have any trouble getting trackbacks to work, I think that Drupal may require (haven't verified this yet) that you publish your blog post first so that the URL for the post is created (can't trackback to something that doesn't exist).