Ok yeah, seeing a lot of "feeds are great but I want to know people are reading" now that folks are setting up blogs.
There has to be a solution there. Comments are an obvious one, and you can just email people, but it's nice to just give a little like or thumbs up sometimes, and sometimes that's all you want.
Would also be ideal if you could like from your RSS reader, but I don't think that's possible.
Also a shame that the further you have to go to add these things to your site, the more people are boxed out of using them, and the smaller the audience gets.
That's what I'm going to miss most about this place! It's so fucking easy when everyone's in one place and you actually want to engage with them there!