💬 Replied to: Own Your Followers: Redirecting Feeds on the Web
“Every four months or so I go through and tidy up many of my feeds. Invariably a dozen or so feeds die out, but I’m noticing a recurring quirk. Most of them are within my IndieWeb folder!
A lot of the changes seem to be related to people who are shifting from one shiny toy or project to another. Th…”
I installed the Redirection plugin on my site purely because I needed to redirect from my old Jekyll-generated feed to the WordPress feed when I migrated over. /me engages "smug mode" 😅
It used to be people used FeedBurner to provide an unchanging address for their feeds (and fix the *many* problems in various RSS/Atom implementations at the time). The idea was that it was independent from your blog software, so could be a fixed point of truth. All the site owner had to do was update the configuration whenever they switched software. Eventually FeedBurner was purchased by Google, went out of fashion, and people slowly forgot about it…
FeedBurner itself is – surprisingly – still running, and I bet a good proportion of the feeds linked to it still work – whether or not they’re still active. I know when I logged in last year there were a bunch of my own still merrily chugging away without any intervention. Many of my oldest subscriptions still seem to use it, too.
