I’ve decided, at least for now, to eliminate the Blogvoices discussion function on FmH. The comments have been sparse and, with some exceptions, have been of limited quality, and it has not apparently served as a medium to get lively discussion going. More than anything else, I found it significantly slowed down the loading of the blog page;there seems to be a long delay in accessing the Blogvoices server at most hours of the day. If you want to comment on a post, consider posting it to the FmH mailing list, where it’ll be seen by at least a handful of other interested parties besides me. You don’t have to subscribe to the mailing list (see sidebar) to post to it, but of course if you don’t, you’ll never see others’ replies. Should I keep the little ‘discuss’ icon at the end of each blog entry and have it link directly to emailing to the list?

If there’s a raucous outcry from those of you who miss Blogvoices, I’ll consider reinstalling it. Too bad it didn’t work better; it seemed like a bright idea at the time…