[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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