RSS/Atom feed now provided by FeedBurner

Published November 14th, 2005

I was checking out my stats the other day and found, to my surprise, that the RSS and Atom feeds now make up a significant proportion of the total traffic on this domain. I’m slightly ashamed to admit how little I know about this end of things — it came ‘built-in’ with WordPress and I just let it do its thing.

Anyway, I thought I’d save myself some bandwidth by running my feeds through FeedBurner, a third-party service that effectively acts as a feed proxy. It’s quite smart, too — there’s just one URL for all feed types (RSS, RSS2.0, Atom) and it supplies whatever format your reader asks for.

Today I set up a redirect so that anyone who was subscribed at the old URL will now automatically be served by FeedBurner. As far as I can tell it should be working, but if anyone’s noticing any problems please let me know (leave a comment, below) and I’ll look into it.

Thanks!

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7 Comments

  1. Flyboy on November 15, 2005

    It wasn’t working, I only got an error.

    But the new feed is different from the old one.
    In the old feed, all the comments where shown, here only the message titles.
    Is there a way to change that back?

    Thanks

  2. Flyboy on November 15, 2005

    nevermind that, just found the right link

  3. Stickman on November 15, 2005

    Could you explain a bit more, in case others are experiencing the same problem? Thanks.

  4. Flyboy on November 15, 2005

    the link you provide in the article above is the link to the feed with only the new articles in, not with the link to all the new comments.
    but you can find both links at the bottom of this page too.

    but now I noticed that the link that should contain the comments feed also only contains the articles.

    feed:http://feeds.feedburner.com/StickblogComments
    feed:http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stickblog

    the two above links give me the same result…
    so maybe you can fix this?

    Thanks

  5. Flyboy on November 16, 2005

    euhm, can anyone explain to me why my other comment is marked for moderation, and it’s already quite a while that way

  6. Stickman on November 16, 2005

    Yeah sorry, that’s my fault. WordPress sometimes marks comments to be moderated before they’re posted — not sure why, possibly when they contain URLs — and I don’t always notice they’re there for a while.

    Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I’ll look into the problem with the comments feed today, it’ll be something to do with the .htaccess redirect rules I have in place.

  7. Stickman on November 16, 2005

    Seems to be fixed now — I’d missed a parameter on the redirect, so FeedBurner was grabbing the default feed rather than the comments. Now I just have to work out what to do with the story comments…

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