It is no secret that I am a big fan of Uncle Google. But this is heights. Its been almost 2 years now since Google acquired Feedburner and the customers have been facing one issue after another since then. This is contrary to what many had assumed when Google bought Feedburner.
Feedburner Issue – Subscriber count suddenly drops
Feedburner has been facing some glitches but the most important one of them all is the sudden drop in subscriber count. Earlier only the widgets were having this issue, and I had even suggested a simple work-around to save from the embarrassment. But then, the issue has gone from bad to worse.
Now, not just the widgets/API, the actual count goes down every other day. Have a look at the screenshot below (taken from Technically Personal Feedburner account)
Notice the (dirty) red arrows in the image above. My RSS feed subscriber count dropped from 1300+ to 400+. I know that I am not the only one facing this issue. Over the past 6 months or so, many eminent blogs/bloggers have written about this and amazingly enough Google has not done anything but asking everyone to move from Feedburner to Google. Absolutely nothing has changed post-movement of feeds. Some of the articles about Feedburner issue -
1. Feedburner Needs To Get It Together – TechCrunch
2. FeedBurner Subscriber Stats Having Major Issues – SeroundTable
3. The FeedBurner Subscriber Count Drop Issue – Blogsessive
4. Google, Can You Please Fix Feedburner? – DailyBlogTips
Ironically, Feedburner Status blog had written this post sometime back acknowledging the issue and finally closing it saying its resolved.
5. Reduced subscribers reported by Google Feedfetcher
But the fact is, nothing has been fixed, nothing has been resolved, nothing has been done.
As per my observation, this issue looks like not including those users who have subscribed by eMail. It doesn’t look like a tough thing to fix, does it? But Google seems to be adamant in ignoring this till now.
Image credits: Google blog
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May 24th, 2009 at 9:25 am
@Raju
I am not amused you write this post on feed burner as I see your frustration through tweets in twitter mentioning showing less subscriber count,this is really annoying for any blogger.Feed burner service should be reliable,it’s not this single time it happened showing dip in subscriber count in the past also.This should be considered seriously by Google, hoping Google will fix this issue soon.
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May 24th, 2009 at 11:01 am
i hope google will fix this problem very soon.I noticed few bloggers complaining that.I noticed feed counts dropping frequently since past 2weeks.
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May 24th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I know about this issue. Don’t know why google doesn’t fix it?
Hope they figure out and fix it soon.
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May 25th, 2009 at 9:05 am
This is the most common issue that every blogger is facing.
Specially when I don’t update my blog for a day..I can see a significant decrease in subscription count..
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May 25th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Me too, that happened. I’m rocking between 9 and 10 right now LOL.
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May 25th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Hey your feed count is ok now.
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Raju Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
@Ricky,
I guess you didn’t understand the gist of my post
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May 25th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
1300+ to 400+? That sux.. I haven’t had any problems so far with my feedburner subscribers. It’s increasing slowly but steadily to 300 now
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May 25th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
This feedburner issue is too annoying and now I’ve stopped looking at it. I hope Google will fix it soon…
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May 26th, 2009 at 4:49 am
No problem, google will buy some company to get feedburner fixed or maybe will buy other company to subtitute feedburner and tell us to move to the new company, who knows!
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May 26th, 2009 at 5:14 am
This is too annoying. You will have 500 subscribers today, and about 70 tomorrow! :S
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May 26th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Raju let us hope this will be fixed for your blog since two days it is not showing dip in the subscriber count for your blog.
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Raju Reply:
May 26th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
@Venkat, Preetam,
The issue is inconsistent. There will be sudden dip sometime and gets back to normal after a day.
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May 26th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
But mine’s quite working w/o flaws. I had 10 yesterday. Now 11.
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May 26th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Yeah..
Its really an irritating thing.. Even am noticing this issue since last couple of months.
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May 27th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I think google are not really taking care of feed burner — we could hope that they will fix it nearby ………
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May 30th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I’m also annoyed with this feedburner issue. Don’t know, when they’ll fix this issue properly.
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