To me, the cleanest way to solve this problem is still via htaccess but in my case, it caused timeout errors which I suspect has more to do with the host server than feedburner. But I’ll give this a shot for awhile and let you know if I have any issues.

Of course, I had to muddy the waters by moving my feeds from Feedburner to Google. It converted the main and comment feeds just fine but went crazy when it tried to convert the category feeds. Thankfully, since they were new feeds, there were no subscribers. But I feel for those trying to move an established subscriber base. I ended up deleting the original feeds and recreating through Google. Once recreated, I used Perishable Press’s technique to redirect WordPress’s category feeds to the new Google feeds.

Right now I have my feeds more or less hidden in plain site in the links section of the sidebar. They will eventually be incorporated into each category’s main page once I decide how and where.

For the commentors, it’s kinda cool. If they establish an account with IntenseDebate, their profile follows them around. They do not have to reregister when they are commenting on another IntenseDebate site.

So far, it’s been seamless. I’ve had a couple of comments posted to the site without the need of moderation as the commentor already had an established record with IntenseDebate. That was nice. As of right now, the plan is to keep going with it unless I see a noticeble slowdown on my site.