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Jan
22
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Turns out the feed for my blog decided to bork about 4 days ago. David sent me a kind note (as he always seems to do about 5 minutes after fecal matter impacts spinning metal) but I couldn’t find wtf was wrong. A few days later, and it’s bugging me, and FeedBurner is choking on the fumes. I try FeedValidator.org, and it’s all “hey! dude! your feed is all like 404, ‘n stuff!” And I was all like “no fracking way. it’s all good, man. haven’t even touched that stuff in a long, long time, brah.” and then FeedValidator says “whatever, dude. I’m telling you, it’s gone. 404. MIA. Fix it.”
I send a message to the FeedValidator listserv (because I can see the feed just fine in my browser and via curl/wget/etc but FeedValidator insists it’s 404), and get 2 responses back within 10 minutes, suggesting my .htaccess was inflicting all kinds of negative foo. I decide to give up on trying to make sense of it, and just replace it with a fresh copy. And it seems to work now.
Anyway, all of this to say “sorry for any RSS noise you might see as a result of my feed’s borkage and subsequent hopeful deborkage.” Of course, this post jynxes it. It’s probably going to bork just to spite me. Fracking blog.
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D’Arcy, it’s working now. Don’t tell me I’m the only one who tells you when the feed goes wonky.
Sometimes it’s better not to question why- and just reboot.
I wish I understood why and how to use Feedburner- I just use the generic WP built-ins. Would like to know the pros and cons…
Thanks
@david: you were the only one that mentioned it. I think everyone else was just thankful for the respite
I started using FeedBurner for the performance - it saves the majority of accesses of a feed from going directly to my server, as FeedBurner (now Google) happily serves it out. At the time, my server was performing _very_ poorly, so I was looking for everything I could do to squeeze any extra oomph out of it. But FeedBurner also provides some really nice aggregate and anonymized stats, so I can see activity on my feed - subscribers, trends, as well as uses of the feed on other sites.
The biggest con wrt FeedBurner is that people subscribe to a URL that isn’t under my control. If FeedBurner turns evil, or disappears, subscribers will have to come back to my blog to resubscribe to the non-FeedBurner version of the feed. Not the worst thing in the world, but could be a source of pain somewhere down the road…