Since Google Acquired FeedBurner Everthing is Fuc0ed

  • Posted on: January 20th, 2009
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Seriously my Feedburner url have been changed 4 times for past few months or better yet to say since Google Acquired Feedburner.

Yesterday I lost over 400 RSS feed users and my account is all messed up. I really never paid attention how much rss subscribers I have but I do pay attention that my subscribers are updated on daily basis.

Here what happened with my feeds since Google Acquired (Yes I did send trouble ticket, nothing happen):

I use to have all my feeds under one account which was also registered with gmail.

  •  When google Acquired FBurner: They asked me to merge accounts so I did! Now I have feedburner icon on my old account and in order to check on my current feeds I first have to login and then type feedburner.google.com otherwise I get “Invalid Page” if I go directly.

Remember the hack with Netvibes where people added OPML files?

  • When google Acquired FBurner: My feeds went from 420 to 5420 subscribers and my feeds are still fluctuating between 700 rss subscribers and 5700 subscribers ( I wrote to google help desk nothing happned , by the way this was like 6 months ago)

My Feeds have changed 4 times in past few months.

  • When google Acquired FBurner: Feeds url changed 4 times! from feedburner.com/ to feedproxy.google.com/ to feeds2.google.com/ to feeds.google.com/
    now rss subscribers are all over! I can’t even say how many subscribers I have.

Google where is my “Free” Pro Account?

  • When google Acquired FBurner: Pro Account was gone. I also was able to see how many people check my feeds per hour or half hour depending on how traffic was that day. And also more statistics such as what Reader subscribers used the most and what I should provide them when they click on RSS feeds url. 

Ok enough of my complaining, I hope your feeds did not have these problems above since Google Acquired Feedburner. To be honest I am very disapointed and will be probably switching to livecrunch.com/feeds or some other rss feeds service.