Google ate Feedburner

January 21, 2009 · 6 comments

As you may have heard, Google ate acquired Feedburner awhile back. As part of the inevitable, Google will phase out Feedburner feeds that don’t switch over to Google by February 28, 2009. In order to avoid having my readers run into nasty error pages, I went ahead and made the switch.

If you subscribe to my feed via RSS or email, you don’t have to do anything differently. Google swears that the update will be seamless. And we all trust Google, right?

That said, I have no idea how this will actually affect your feed. So, please, if you notice anything out of whack, let me know asap. I’ll do what I can to fix it… you know, cause Google and I are like *this* (picture me crossing my fingers).

Psst, if you haven’t subscribed, why in heaven’s name not? It’s easy, it’s fast and it’s free (please, no jokes about girls we all knew in high school – they might be reading this via Facebook).

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1 Mike P January 21, 2009 at 4:32 pm

Hi Kelly.

I just transferred my own blog to my Google account from Feedburner. Does your feed still update as soon as you put up a post? After I transferred mine, it’s now taking almost a day for a post to show up unless I manually ping feedburner.

Best of luck with the transition…

2 Kelly January 21, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Mike, thanks for the heads up. I haven’t checked the feed update but plan to do it tonight. I’ll let you know.

3 Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) January 21, 2009 at 9:28 pm

I’m having the same problem with very slow feed updating and needing to ping manually. And it dropped at least 25% of my subscribers. Gee, thanks, Google….

4 Kelly January 21, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Noooo! Lydia, I am sorry to hear it. Fingers crossed that they get it together!

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