DISQUS

Webomatica · 6 months ago

Thinking about this further, it seems like a ploy for FF to gain more users. Because the payperpost blogging for the money crowd - as soon as they get wind of this way to juice up their Feedburner stats - are gonna take to this like bees to honey.

So FF get tons more users while bloggers are left with an increasingly useless metric that everyone will ignore since it has lost value.

StevenHodson · 6 months ago

well I know I'm beginning to feel a little screwed in the deal

centernetworks · 6 months ago

i also use the local rss feed for ff for cn - and so i didn't get the bumpity either

although on insidetransit i got 2500 new subs - yet IT doesnt get 2500 pv a day.

Hutch Carpenter · 6 months ago

Clicked it from FriendFeed, and read it Steven!

Louis Gray · 6 months ago

If the behavior had always been this way, it likely wouldn't be that big of a deal, but since it was all at once, it absolutely came as a shock. That said, Steven, I've been following you on all networks since before you had a single gray hair.

micahwittman · 6 months ago

Not defending friendfeed's move - I don't have a dog in that hunt. But I get to shootingbubbles posts via the friendfeed and not RSS.

mikepk · 6 months ago

But, in all honesty, aren't all feed tracking stats completely bogus? Just because someone's feed reader is subscribed (and your content is pulled) doesn't mean they're looking at it (in fact I would say the majority don't read every post). So yes, it does increase "bogosity", but I think most people look at sub counts as a statistical phenomenon. You can't model the individual interactions for all the atoms in a gas, but you can get a measure of gas pressure. This 'subscriber pressure' will be slightly more inflated than before but the trends are what's important, no?

PetrBuben · 6 months ago

hi.
what the deal with the cat in the picture? if it is what i think, is it even appropriate to show it?