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Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

Guest — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:48:02 -0000

sorry to cough up an old post. but i'm with jason. when has google been short on data storage or bandwidth? hehe

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

jason — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:28:00 -0000

"But to remove features outright, possibly in an effort to reduce data storage or bandwidth demands? I never expected that."

That made me laugh :) Thanks for the giggle!

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:03:00 -0000

"...the missing all-time statistics was not a nefarious move by their new Google overlords, but instead, simply a bug."

and

"...who got a note from FeedBurner's CEO saying it was just a bug."

It would have been preferable for a senior member of the engineering team, such as the responsible lead, to respond.

Having the Product Manager and CEO respond is appreciated. And there is no reason to believe anything is being hide. At the same such people can tend to be a bit fluid with the term "bug".

Whether it is a "bug" in the classic sense really does not matter - much.

Fortunately the functionality will be restored with the next code push.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

louisgray — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:21:00 -0000

Follow-up Post: Feedburner Restores All-Time Feed Statistics, Google Not Proven Evil

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

FreeBee — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:17:00 -0000

And again, without any research at all, people started yelling about how EVIL Google must be, killing services all around... And yet again, it turns out they were wrong.

Really, I started out rather sceptic about the Google phenomenon. But over the years I've learned to (cautiously) appreciate what they're doing... Apparently there are only VERY few Google fans like me.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

louisgray — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:31:00 -0000

Steve, thanks for the update. Sounds like the community really appreciates your team's work, and we'll be looking forward to having this data restored!

Appreciate your dropping by.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

LGR — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:36:00 -0000

That sucks. I liked to see how my feed has grown since I started. Must be Google effect on the company.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

Steve Olechowski — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:21:00 -0000

Hello there - this was not intentional...it will be restored with our next code push.

Steve Olechowski
Product Manager
FeedBurner / Google

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

W.B. McNamara — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:16:00 -0000

For what it's worth, the actual data is still there behind the scenes -- I just pulled my full history (back to 2004) as a test. You can pull it via the Feedburner "awareness" API (and when you've got a third party service holding data it's never a bad idea to back it up yourself).

The lack of communication from Feedburner is bad and a little surprising, but the fact that the data is still there makes me think that this may be a temporary state of affairs.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

Ilya Grigorik — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:54:00 -0000

Louis, are you sure this is not just a UI tweak? I still seem to be able to retrieve historic data for my feed through Feedburner API's.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

Dennis Howlett — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:20:00 -0000

This has been gone as a feature for some weeks but it wasn't until you wrote this that I realised it's been killed completely.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

darmik — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0000

This kind of behavior from a company after a Google acquisition should not be a surprise. What ever happened to the wiki company they acquired ?

Maybe this will stop some of the glowing google pr.

If FeedBurner were open source this would not be an issue. You would quickly find a version that supported the previous functionality; and if you did not you could build it yourself.

If Google is so "Good" then why dont they Open Source the project ?
This would be a sure way for them to push innovation; as they would know that if they did not someone else would.

Re: louisgray.com: FeedBurner Quietly Kills All-Time RSS Feed Stats

Guitar Noize — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:10:00 -0000

I hadn't even noticed until I read your article, thats crazy!! I hope they haven't permanently deleted all the data!