I thought we had until at least October when the
FeedBurner API expires, but I guess not. Since last week (about Sept. 17 in my stats) FeedBurner shows
0 (zero) subscribers to
all of my feeds. The feeds themselves still show, but I'm not getting any stats. >:(
Google apparently knows about the issue...
QuoteKnown Issue: Subscriber Counts and Stats
Friday, September 21, 2012 | 9:26 AM
Issue: We have been encountering difficulties with our stats production pipeline for data representing Sept 19th and 20th, 2012. We are currently working to resolve the issue.
http://feedburnerstatus.blogspot.com/2012/09/known-issue-subscriber-counts-and-stats.html
I really liked FeedBurner. It was free. It just simply worked. Now it's glitch central and apparently isn't a priority at Google. I highly doubt they're going to fully abandon the platform because they'd severely impact the RSS feed universe.
However, it is unfortunately time to look at alternatives. Has anyone here had luck with other services? I'm only really using FeedBurner for RSS stats, not the e-mail function...although that was nice to have.
Bill - are you on Typepad? Why am I thinking that?
Anyway, I don't know what capability it has, but for Wordpress the new Jetpack offers email subscriptions and I bet it's easy to get the stats (gotta be a module for that, but I do like that aspect of FB).
Once you have the stats and the email option, what does FB give you anyway?
[meanwhile, I have to move a couple of things off FB before it goes belly up]
I never trusted 3rd party sites to serve up my feeds, even less so G owned ones. Proves me right I guess.
Quote from: ergophobe on September 24, 2012, 05:55:14 AM
Bill - are you on Typepad? Why am I thinking that?
You're recalling my affinity for
MovebleType. I have a lot of sites on that. You got the SixApart connection right. :P
In addition to the stats, FB does offer some feed cleaning options that made feeds browser friendly and ensured compatibility, so regardless of the junk other authors published the RSS feed came out in a compatible format. (no worries about curly quotes, or other odd characters messing things up.)
My sites' feeds don't tend to pick up a lot of e-mail subscribers, so that wasn't as much of a factor for me. A lot of the FB alternatives like
Mail Chimp and
FeedBlitz that are being suggested out there focus on the mail aspect. That's not necessarily what I'm after. There really isn't a comparable free service out there that can replace FB that I have seen.