Comments on: Google, Can You Please Fix Feedburner?

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:17:55 +0000

I love it when Feedburner sends out old blog posts. Like this morning I got an email update from FB of a blog post I wrote three months ago. You have to wonder if anyone is even at the wheel over there.

By: medyum

medyum — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:54:57 +0000

I don’t even have any google reader subscribers right now – the column says ZERO which drops roughly 100 subscribers off my count. It’s been like this for a few days and then will jump back up to 250 spontaneously. Seems very unprofessional to me, at least their IT team could send out a message detailing what upgrades are occurring or if any problems might occur.

By: Wonkie CartOOns

Wonkie CartOOns — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:39:15 +0000

I’m running a cartoon blog and have over 3000 feedburner email subscriptions at the moment. I found a pattern of when feed stats go beserk and drop to 100 or something silly like that – it pretty much always occurs when you change the time of your feed delivery emails (for some reason – read bug – it calculates the feed subscriber numbers differently for 1 time period – it is usually fixed a couple hours after your feed delivery time)

Regarding the dynamic subject line – definitely agree with you on this point. At the moment I change the email subject in the email branding part of the Publicize page manually each time. An irritation with this is that this variable is the same one used by feedburner to name your subscription (so any new subscribers will get whatever the email subject line is as the name of the blog they’re subscribing too) – pretty daft design and it’s sad that there isn’t anything even vaguely competing – not for free anyway.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:14:42 +0000

You are right. The first issue is very easy to fix and if not fixed, it will continue to annoy email subscribers as they will just keep seeing the Blog name instead of the title of the post.

By: Michael Orta

Michael Orta — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:04:20 +0000

Have you tried using a plug-in (assuming you are using wordpress) titled Subscribe2? You can edit the settings to send per post, daily digest, or weekly digest.

I found this to be much more flexible plus I get to retain the email addresses of those that subscribe.