Comments on: Please Switch Your RSS Feed

By: Robert Prather

Robert Prather — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:26:27 +0000

Please don’t delete the old feed. I have a lot of your posts favorited in Google reader and don’t want to have to lose those. Do please consider the redirect option.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:57:36 +0000

Do whatever you can to NOT delete the old feed altogether. You will definitely lose readers that way.

By: Epistaxis

Epistaxis — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:28:45 +0000

I’d like to, but the new link doesn’t seem to work.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:12 +0000

I’m fourth on the FeedSmith option – I’ve put it on my own blog and all my feed info goes through Feedburner now.

By: Brian S.

Brian S. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:13:22 +0000

I added the feed to my reader, but couldn’t have the same name for the original and new feed at the same time. So, I decided on naming the new one Friendly Atheist Prime (math notation, of course) and realized that it made you sound like a Transformer.

By: Jason C. Romero

Jason C. Romero — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:08 +0000

Looks like Adrian beat me to the suggestion I was going to make. Just install the FeedSmith plugin and you won’t have to worry about losing anyone.

http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78483&topic=13252

By: Bjorn Watland

Bjorn Watland — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Second on the redirect. That way you don’t lose people, and you still get all of the tracking, Google AdWords injecting goodness of FeedBurner.

By: Adrian Hayter

Adrian Hayter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:55:22 +0000

Why not just use the “FeedBurner FeedSmith” plugin for WordPress that redirects feeds to their Feedburner equivalent?

By: Nick A

Nick A — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:21:27 +0000

dude this is terrible. i’ve been subscribing to this rss feed for like three weeks now, i don’t want to go changing it, messing up my everyday life. ….God damn.