Keyvan Nayyeri

It looks like that my ambivalence about using FeedBurner or sticking with my own feed generator/host had a reason, and now after some months, I’m just noticing that it wasn’t a wise decision to move to FeedBurner!

Recently FeedBurner has been showing signs of weakness and their statistics are not very dependable anymore. Today Brendon Tomkins had a write up about FeedBurner issues and the huge difference between the real data and what they aggregate.

As I had written a few months ago, I don’t care much about my feed statistics, so found FeedBurner as something not that useful for myself, especially because it restricts my control on my feed content. Statistics and reliable hosting are my highlights of this service and the latter one doesn’t matter for me because my hosting solution is 100% reliable, so regarding these statistic issues, it’s predictable why I don’t prefer FeedBurner anymore!

Moreover, I found that there are different URLs for my feed that are handed down from Community Server days and original Graffiti feed, and lately Google assigned a new Google Feeds URL to my site that was ugly for me because it wasn’t a part of my own domain (like FeedBurner MyBrand service). In the past 1.5 years, I always tried to redirect my older feed URLs to the new destination but there were some circumstances that I completely forgot about that such as the latest movement to my MaximumASP servers when I didn’t notice this issue for almost one week.

Regarding this issue and some problems on FeedBurner, I decided to move off FeedBurner and rely on my own Graffiti feed that is all I need to have.

Here I have to ask you, all my feed subscribers, to do a favor and re-subscribe to my feed at new address (assuming you’re not already a subscriber from the pre-FeedBurner era!) to make sure you always can see my new posts (even though they don’t add much to this world!). I’ll try to redirect other URLs to this new one forever but it’s a high chance that a problem occurs and temporary breaks some subscriptions especially those that are hosted on some online services like Google Reader, NewsGator or Bloglines.