Feedburner started as a cool new blog feed management/reporting service a few years ago, and quickly became a de facto standard. A quick scan of my Feed Reader shows hardly anything but Feedburner. Since Google acquired the company almost two years ago, we haven’t seen a lot of new services – but that does not change the almost monopoly status. Feedburner rules the market, and we’re no exception: that’s what we use here @ CloudAve.
A few months ago Google started to migrate accounts – first only those who wanted to run Adsense in their feeds. Since CloudAve is an ad-free zone, we did not bother first, but knew the day would come: the final deadline is February 28th, but anyone can move to the new servers on their own schedule.
Seeing all the negative buzz on Twitter we were planning to wait – but then we “lost” 80% of our subscribers even with the old setup, so we figured we might as well take the plunge. And here we are now: shiny, brand new (old) RSS feed @ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/cloudave.
Google says (FAQ) the stats will “recover” in about a week. Funny thing is, the one service entirely missing from the reports is Google’s very own Reader. I certainly hope this “loss” is only in the stats, and readers are receiving our feed without interruption. If you are, you don’t have to do anything, the old Feedburner URL will continue to be redirected, says Google. Then again, if you’re cautious (like I am), or perhaps are not following our feed yet, you might as well grab the new feed here.
Either way, thanks for reading CloudAve.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one having issues with feedburner.
Yes, we migrated and had some temporary issues, particularly with statistics. But all seems to be fixed now… hopefully.