Jan19, 2009

Feedburner 'sploded?

What the bloody hell has gone wrong with Feedburner? I logged in yesterday to try and figure out why my feed subscriber count had dropped from 561 (highest it's ever been) to two hundred and something, to see a notice from Google about the whole shebang moving over to feedburner.google.com.

"Click here to move your account" etc... so I did. Only today, I'm down to 175 subscribers. Either Google have right royally screwed something up, or Feedburner have been staggeringly over-reporting subscribers for months. One things for sure, there's several sets of users missing from my subscriber info (e.g. there's zero Firefox Live Bookmarks readers, which I know is total tosh), and so something is definitely not right.

Have any of you guys had any problems getting to my feed? Any feedburner users experiencing similar problems?

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    Josh 19/01/09 at 20:05 #

    I hope the same thing has happened to me, because that'd mean that I've got WAY MORE subscribers than the paltry number being reported.

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    Regine 19/01/09 at 20:05 #

    I'm having problems too, and before I've moved to Google. There's something wrong with the subscribers amount, cause every time I log in, I get a different amount, and the different is over 10 each time. Weird, cause I don't think 10 random people would subscribe to my blog, and suddenly, other 10 people would unsubscribe? Hmmm...

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    Ann 19/01/09 at 20:27 #

    Actually, my feedburner stats are looking pretty much as they ever did - I've not had a problem moving over to Google. There doesn't seem to be a problem with accessing your feed either - although I'm a FF Live Bookmarker so I don't know how yours have managed to screw up. Maybe they just lost all of your ones associated with FF? I've still got mine...

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    Cecelia 19/01/09 at 20:41 #

    I think I have the same problem but I am not sure as I don't exactly have that many subscribers.. But my google reader have however been acting really strange these past few days so there's probably something about it..

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    Leila 19/01/09 at 20:46 #

    Yeah, my subscribers were slashed in half. Kinda wtf-ish.

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    Hev 19/01/09 at 21:06 #

    No, I get your feed right on schedule. It doesn't show the content, just the address. Hmm...maybe I need to check mine out, just to make sure nothing happened to it.

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    Peter 19/01/09 at 21:17 #

    I'm still subscribed! *waves* I haven't had any problems with Feedburner, although I did start using it AFTER the switch.

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    Chris Ritke 19/01/09 at 21:19 #

    lookin good in google reader

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    Peter 19/01/09 at 21:23 #

    Oh... there were no problems with subscribing. *scribbles out first part of comment* You should allow people to edit their comment, Jem :P.

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    Nellie 19/01/09 at 21:27 #

    And here I was thinking people just unsubscribed to me because I don't have my blog up at the moment.

    I'm still getting your posts through Google Reader.

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    Vasili 19/01/09 at 23:19 #

    Yeah, I lost 5 (omg! big number!) subscribers since my move. Stupid google. :|

    @Peter: People might "delete" their comments. :P

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    Nyx 20/01/09 at 00:02 #

    Livejournal syndicated account jemology is still up and running, in any case! (That's how I get your posts.)

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    Mimi 20/01/09 at 00:24 #

    My feed number dropped a bit too. I'd like to blame it on Feedburner as that would make me feel a bit better :P

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    Noellium 20/01/09 at 01:12 #

    Nope, haven't had any problems here.

    (Then again, I almost never check my feed subscribers. ._.)

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    Chanel 20/01/09 at 01:16 #

    My subscriber count was pretty much slashed in half as well; however, I read the little info document Feedburner provided about its move to Google, and it looks like it's to be expected that your subscriber count is all wonky for a bit... So I wouldn't worry about it.

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    Vera 20/01/09 at 05:08 #

    Well I'm on a diet... and making most people diet around me... so I can't help you. But I can imagine how frustrating that can be :\

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    Vera 20/01/09 at 05:09 #

    ^ that would be a most unfortunate pun, regarding the feeding. I've not suddenly turned spammy XP

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    Sarah 20/01/09 at 07:56 #

    I do not really check my subscriber count all that much. I ought to, really.

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    Tracy 20/01/09 at 14:34 #

    Thanks for this post, I'll log into feedburner and check today. My subscribers went from +60 to 20. So... -40 for two days or so. That happened a few weeks ago too, but the next day the feed went up again, so this time I didn't bother to check yet.

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    Mimi Graham 20/01/09 at 16:27 #

    I am using Google reader and I have no problem getting your posts. Well, I kind of have a small thing, but it's not really a problem. It takes like a day or two for them to show up sometimes but by that time I have usually just wandered over here and found the post on my own anyway. I just now got this one on my reader. :(

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    Marieke 20/01/09 at 18:07 #

    That's odd...
    Well, I use FeedDemon and I receive your posts. Not sure if it will be counted as being a subscriber of your blog though.

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    Vasili 20/01/09 at 21:44 #

    It seems that my subscribers are back where they were before the switch. :)

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    Skye 20/01/09 at 23:54 #

    I made my own feed and added it to Feedburner today because of your post. I subscribed myself but it says 0 subscribers. Hmm.

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    Chans 21/01/09 at 09:42 #

    No problems here with getting your feed, always up to date. Now that it's changed to google, do we have to update our feeds or wouldn't that matter?

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    Melissa 21/01/09 at 13:22 #

    I'm still getting your feed through Google Reader just fine. And when I switched my Feedburner account over to Google I actually gained 2 subscribers! Strange.

    It does say somewhere to expect things to sort themselves out with a week once you've switched over.

    "It may take up to a week for a feed’s full dose of stats to appear in your Google Account."

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