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Migrate from FeedBurner

16 points by vayan 13y ago

antr 13y ago
My company has a blog with c. 40,000 RSS subs, and the most valuable FeedBurner feature is the tracking/visitor display option. On the other hand, this new service wants users to pay for it... competing with free tends to be a lost battle.
- robotmay 13y ago
  I suppose they're betting on people who don't want to trust Google with anything regarding RSS these days. I wouldn't think FeedBurner will be shut down (as it must be useful for crawling), but I could understand people being worried.
  - antr 13y ago
    I understand the whole "trusting Google" thing, but RSS ain't email or search behaviour. These RSS services are simply passthrough/syndication services, and no real sensitive data is handled (unless I'm missing something else?).
    - johnchristopher 13y ago
      I think it's more about trusting google to keep the service running.
    - michh 13y ago
      Google has been killing most of its RSS-related products (most notably Reader). People are concerned FeedBurner might be next.
      - PavlovsCat 13y ago
        Yeah, worrying about Feedburner is not new. http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/ http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/ This recent NSA stuff may help with motivating people to actually switch, but it's not really needed as a reason.
josteink 13y ago
Talking about migrating away from US-based cloud-services... In an age of NSA masss-surveilance and service-providers getting hit with secret requests for information, it seems the only thing you can actually trust is open-source software you host yourself. Does anyone have a good guide or experience moving from Google apps to a completely self-hosted open-source solution for email, contact-management and calendering? Can you make all of this (more or less) seamlessly integrate with mobile-platforms like Android? iOS is obviously not a trust-worthy solution, and Android, while owned by Google is at least open-source. If you go super-paranoid you can always builds not integrating with Google's services in any way.
lingben 13y ago
huh, seems they changed their name/URL from uri.lv to feedpress.it

16 points by vayan 13y ago

antr 13y ago

My company has a blog with c. 40,000 RSS subs, and the most valuable FeedBurner feature is the tracking/visitor display option. On the other hand, this new service wants users to pay for it... competing with free tends to be a lost battle.

robotmay 13y ago
I suppose they're betting on people who don't want to trust Google with anything regarding RSS these days. I wouldn't think FeedBurner will be shut down (as it must be useful for crawling), but I could understand people being worried.
- antr 13y ago
  I understand the whole "trusting Google" thing, but RSS ain't email or search behaviour. These RSS services are simply passthrough/syndication services, and no real sensitive data is handled (unless I'm missing something else?).
  - johnchristopher 13y ago
    I think it's more about trusting google to keep the service running.
  - michh 13y ago
    Google has been killing most of its RSS-related products (most notably Reader). People are concerned FeedBurner might be next.
    - PavlovsCat 13y ago
      Yeah, worrying about Feedburner is not new. http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/ http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/ This recent NSA stuff may help with motivating people to actually switch, but it's not really needed as a reason.

josteink 13y ago

Talking about migrating away from US-based cloud-services... In an age of NSA masss-surveilance and service-providers getting hit with secret requests for information, it seems the only thing you can actually trust is open-source software you host yourself. Does anyone have a good guide or experience moving from Google apps to a completely self-hosted open-source solution for email, contact-management and calendering? Can you make all of this (more or less) seamlessly integrate with mobile-platforms like Android? iOS is obviously not a trust-worthy solution, and Android, while owned by Google is at least open-source. If you go super-paranoid you can always builds not integrating with Google's services in any way.

lingben 13y ago

huh, seems they changed their name/URL from uri.lv to feedpress.it