Nice. This forum is *really* coming together. Looks great, not overloaded with bloat. Makes a forum system actually worth using, ...could even redeem forums altogether. Also, I've been meaning to point out, I really like that there is no quote button. People always end up spam clicking a quote button and it just clutters the entire page with redundant quotes.
I want to port this to Node to maybe test out my framework (which itself follows a no nonsense philosophy), but I'm not sure how I'll deal with the RSS. I guess I'll have to include an XML parser, or try to write my own lighter one specifically for RSS. Storing the data as something else seems to violate the philosophy of this forum!