[HN Gopher] Upcoming Changes to FeedBurner
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       Upcoming Changes to FeedBurner
        
       Author : twapi
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-04-14 17:07 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | tech234a wrote:
       | A few more details are in the support article linked at the
       | bottom of the post:
       | https://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/10483501. In
       | addition to email subscriptions, they also mention that they are
       | shutting down browser-friendly subscription pages and password-
       | protection.
       | 
       | Shutting down the email subscription feature is really
       | unfortunate because it provided an easy way for smaller
       | publishers to allow their readers to receive new posts via email.
        
       | geerlingguy wrote:
       | Annoyingly I still have one old feed that has a few hundred
       | subscribers through it on FeedBurner, from way back before I
       | decided I would always set up a custom domain so I could move off
       | services like FeedBurner after they'd been Google'd.
       | 
       | Not sure how many of them subscribe via email, but I know that
       | was one of the main reasons why some people choose to run their
       | feeds through FeedBurner back when it was actually a thing.
        
         | spinningarrow wrote:
         | Yes, for me the main use case for using FeedBurner was also the
         | email subscriptions. Funnily enough, I was looking at
         | alternatives just a few days ago because I had the feeling
         | Google might kill it sooner or later.
        
           | benrmatthews wrote:
           | Care to name the alternatives you found and the one you went
           | for (and why)?
        
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