Comments on: Google’s FeedBurner Problems on the FrontBurner: You’re SOL

By: Neal Schaffer

Neal Schaffer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:40:02 +0000

My Feedburner feed stopped working yesterday for no reason. The only thing I can think of is I recently started using Disqus to manage my comments, but I couldn’t find any information on a potential issue on the Internet.

I am moving over to FeedBlitz. Not happy about their User Interface, but I don’t mind paying a little if I can get some real customer support. ProBlogger using them makes me feel good as well.

Any other alternatives that you might recommend?

By: Looks Like Google FeedBurner Fixed My Account

Looks Like Google FeedBurner Fixed My Account — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:39:50 +0000

[...] are few blog posts you might be interested reading: Chris Pirillo:Google’s FeedBurner Problems on the FrontBurner: You’re SOL CenterNetworks:Why Do We Use FeedBurner and What Alternatives Are Available for Feed Management? [...]

By: Livecrunch

Livecrunch — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:32:20 +0000

They fixed my feeds (kind of). I see few more things, I think they are repaaring netvibes hack that happened about few months ago. I was one of the victims on my other blog. Some 1 thought it was a joke to add another 500 fake subscribers. Now I saw it’s all good.

Btw your feeds are ok. To me … maybe u should switch and see what works best for you?

Feeds.google.com/
Feeds2.google.com/
Feedproxy.google.com

I loved feedburner.com/myfeed. :( so miss that!

By: Nash

Nash — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:38:01 +0000

I use Google Reader and I see no difference in the feeds whatsoever.

By: Kosso

Kosso — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:30:13 +0000

ironically, I found this post via Techmeme :)

But I would never trust feedburner with my feeds. Way too much ‘tag soup’!

By: Kyle Dylan Conner

Kyle Dylan Conner — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:24:40 +0000

I’m taking all of my feeds off of Feedburner tomorrow. They’re only showing me half of my subscriber count and I’m having the same problem with links.

By: Bill Soistmann

Bill Soistmann — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:45:39 +0000

UPDATE:
You asked for comparisons of what the browser renders. My check was with FF3/Mac.

I just checked the source and I can see that my browser renders the description you have in the source (truncated). Feedburner apparently is rending your content:encoded.

Hope this helps.

By: Bill Soistmann

Bill Soistmann — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:43:04 +0000

Actually, the FB feed shows me complete descriptions and your source shows truncated descriptions.

I’ve had nothing but trouble with FB for years (for clients who insisted I set it up) so what I see surprises me.

I’ve recently switched to using FB myself, so if there is a problem I am leaving and not going back.

By: There’s numbers and there’s confusing bullshit numbers - WinExtra

There’s numbers and there’s confusing bullshit numbers - WinExtra — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:44:51 +0000

[...] – especially since it was sucked into the black hole known as Google Acquisitions. People like Chris Pirillo; who is actually thinking of leaving the service, and Allen Stern are pointing out the simple fact [...]

By: Dick Costolo

Dick Costolo — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:56:27 +0000

Hey Chris,

Based on my understanding of how you’re viewing the content, the issue is truly with how Firefox chooses to display the feed content itself; it is choosing the abbreviated element over the extended element. It’s going to vary as widely as there are different ways to display feeds in readers/aggregators/browsers. On the Mac, Safari displays the element, but omits embed tags (such as YouTube videos). There is truly nothing to “fix”, as it were, since the feed is valid and offering content exactly the way your web server is composing it: with two alternative treatments for each item.

The particular use of language in the note forwarded to you is, to my admittedly untrained communications eye, unfortunate.

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:36:03 +0000

Chris, they look identical to me. I am beginning to think I should move from FeedBurner as well. Sheesh.

John

By: Daan Berg

Daan Berg — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:53:49 +0000

Hi Chris,

I tested both links, and the contents are the same. They match.

Well, hope you find a solution soon!

- Daan.

By: tomartomartini

tomartomartini — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:48:01 +0000

so Chris FeedBurner not working ,,so where …taking my feeds

back also ; my feed isn’t producing much more than the first couple sentences of each post – links have vanished..this is a bummer.

By: Steve Woolf

Steve Woolf — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:50:09 +0000

I was nervous about changing over, too. I can tell you that your source feed only shows a snippet of the content and the Feedburner feed shows everything when I click on the links and view in Firefox. However when I use Feedproxy to view the code of the source feed it looks complete and formatted. fwiw.

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:25:00 +0000

thanks for the link! the feed looks the same for me in both of your links