Feedburner’s death knell
September 16th, 2008 | Published in Internet, Technology | 6 Comments
Google acquired Feedburner over a year ago. Since then, innovation there has appeared to stop. It would seem like being acquired by a company with virtually unlimited capital (monetary and intellectual) would give more resources to increase innovation, but instead it seems to have been the death knell of innovation. The service became completely free, but often buggy and without support.
If this continues, someone will soon come out with a Feedburner killer. Or does it already exist and I don’t know about it?
September 16th, 2008 at 10:27 am (#)
The widget seems to slow up pageloading significantly. The “Help Group” seems to be a self-help group. People lose large numbers of subscribers, and there are no explanations. Feedburner seems to be almost as dismal as Technorati in its unresponsiveness to users.
If you find an alternative, Josh, let us know!
September 16th, 2008 at 10:33 am (#)
Will do!
September 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am (#)
You might want to check out this post on the subject.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:19 am (#)
If they’d stop beating FeedStats with the ugly stick, I might be interested…
September 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm (#)
The problem for so many of us is that we’ve got hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of users all subscribed to a Feedburner feed. Few of us can ditch it altogether. If Feedburner were to suddenly disappear, the blogosphere would be devastated. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see people drift away slowly and deliberately if a better service were to appear.
September 16th, 2008 at 4:14 pm (#)
FeedBurner has been real buggy for me lately. I often have to sign in three or four times in a row just to view any stats. And then if I try to look at a different stat, I have to sign in and start all over again. And the susbscriber numbers are all over the map.
By the way, when I first signed up with Feedburner I discovered a way to keep control of my feed in case I ever wanted to leave Feedburner in the future. Hre’s the link if anyone is interested.