Comments on: blog feed was borked – sorry for the noise http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/22/blog-feed-was-borked-sorry-for-the-noise/ apparently much happier in person Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/22/blog-feed-was-borked-sorry-for-the-noise/#comment-169092 dnorman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:19:21 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/22/blog-feed-was-borked-sorry-for-the-noise/#comment-169092 @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... @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…

]]> By: David Esrati http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/22/blog-feed-was-borked-sorry-for-the-noise/#comment-169090 David Esrati Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:50:24 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/01/22/blog-feed-was-borked-sorry-for-the-noise/#comment-169090 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 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

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