gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » ghacks feed http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ghacks Feedburner Feed Stopped Updating: New Feed URLhttp://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/12/ghacks-feedburner-feed-stopped-updating-new-feed-url/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/12/ghacks-feedburner-feed-stopped-updating-new-feed-url/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:25:24 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=22999 I just got an email from long time reader Ben who told me that my feed would not update automatically anymore. After checking the feed it turned out that he was right. The Feedburner feed stopped on February 10 and did not update afterwards while the normal feed displays the latest articles just fine.

I went to Feedburner, tried pinging my feed, then re-synchronizing it, all to no avail. I then clicked on Feed Medic only to be told that my feed was just fine and not causing any errors.

Feedburner suggested to use the Feed Validator to check out that the feed was properly validating which it was.

One strange thing in the Feedburner control panel was that the statistics also stopped on February 10, 2010 which I suppose they should not have.

Feedburner does not have a support email address only a Google Group that one can post in. But the frequency that staff members seem to look at and reply to threads seems to be minimal at best.

Ghacks readers who have troubles with the feed can change the feed address to http://www.ghacks.net/feed/. This feed address is working fine and updating like usual.

Did anyone else experience issues with Feedburner feeds not updating or only periodically updating?

Update

The problem seems to be more complicated than that. I checked http://www.ghacks.net/feed/ in Firefox and it displayed just fine. I checked the same feed in Opera and it also showed entries up to February 10, 2010. Something is not right here. This means that it is likely that the issue is not Feedburner related but related to WordPress or the server.

Update 2

The issue has been fixed. It was related to the W3 Caching plugin which caches feeds by default as well. I disabled that in the settings and the feed should display fine now for all users.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/12/ghacks-feedburner-feed-stopped-updating-new-feed-url/feed/ 12 Feed Transfer To Googlehttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/23/feed-transfer-to-google/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/23/feed-transfer-to-google/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:45:17 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6408 Google changed my RSS News Feed today from Feedburner to a Google domain on my request. I did that mainly because it is then possible to add Adsense ads to the feed which I’m thinking of trying out. Since it is a transfer of the domain it could mean that some of you are experiencing difficulties during the transition phase.

That phase won’t normally last longer than 24 hours. The old feed address is automatically redirected to the new one but since I have been using feed branding at Feedburner I had to update a cname in the domain configuration to point to a new url.

I got one email so far from a user who told me that my feed was not showing up anymore and that he was receiving a 404 (not found) instead. Please let me know if you are also experiencing those difficulties. It helps if you mention the service or program that you are using to read my feed.

Update: Feed should be working now for everyone.

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