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Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

nbradbury — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:06:48 -0000

When our RSS readers encounter the 301 redirect that FeedBurner issues, we do change the XmlUrl for the feed. But I'm not aware of how to do that once the 30 days are up, since FeedBurner issues a 404 after that time.

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:42:34 -0000

Nick, do you rss reader products automatically change the subscription as Google Reader does after the 30 day redirection is done?

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:41:45 -0000

I second that. Partial content is always annoying.

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:13:16 -0000

I've played with the re-direct pretty extensively, and at some point during
the 30-day redirection, Google simply changes the source address for the
feed to the new address whenever it sees the 301 (not sure if it's instantly
or after a time).

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

nbradbury — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:40:28 -0000

Keep in mind that after you delete it, your Feedburner feed will redirect to your blog feed for 30 days (if you choose that option upon deletion). So, this change shouldn't have a huge impact on your readership.