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Feedburner experiment over - it crashed and burned

A little while ago I switched my blogs RSS feeds to Feedburner.  It has not gone well.  The feeds are up and down, the interface is clunky, and as Derek Jones pointed out, it wasn’t really giving me anything I didn’t already have.

I’m not interested in an unreliable service, and it turned out to only be an exercise in frustration.  I’ve switched back the feeds to http://www.derekallard.com/feed/ and intend to leave it like that.  If you subscribed to feedburner, feel free to change back, although I’ll continue to maintain both.

Pardon the interruption… but Feedburner crashed and burned…

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Comments

Lewis wrote on

Yay, my laziness in changing my feeds has paid off! :P

don loeb wrote on

hi,

this is don from feedburner. i’m sorry you seemed to be having probelms with feedburner. i highly doubt we were down as we manage 650k feeds for blogs all the way up to WSJ, CNN, AOL, and others and we haven’t heard of any downtime, etc.

can you let me know your specific problem and/or complaint? i’d love to help you get to the bottom of this. feel free to email me if you want to start a thread.

thanks…

don loeb
vp partner services
feedburner

James wrote on

Strange.  ive been using feedburner for about 9 months so far and haven’t had a single problem with it.

Although to be fair im hardly getting a lot of hits but i know a lot of the feeds in my rss are using feedburner and they all work perfectly aswell.

Offloading the bandwidth is a good enough reason to switch to Feedburner.

Derek wrote on

Thanks Don, I appreciate you following up.  I’ll contact you via email, and in fairness to Feedburner, one of us can post a summary when everything is resolved to this thread.