Are you still using Feedburner? Or have you moved to another service?

[EGOL]

Lots of webmasters and bloggers are still using Feedburner to help people subscribe to their blog posts by RSS feed and email.   I see that Moz still uses it.  (If you click the RSS "Follow us" chicklet on Moz it takes you to Feedburner.)

Google stopped supporting the Feedburner API in May, 2011.  They disabled Adsense for Feeds in October 2012.  Now some users say that Google has stopped support although,  support issues continue to appear on http://feedburnerstatus.blogspot.com/

Lately some of my subscribers have reported problems with the Feedburner emails that they receive.  They can't be opened in some email programs or can be opened but appear empty.

Are you still using Feedburner?

Have you moved your feed to another service that you would recommend?

Thanks for any thoughts you can share.

[BrightHealth]

I have finally given in to feedly. It was much easier for me to make the transition than I had anticipated. After two weeks, I was glad I switched.

[EGOL]

I see that the SpyderTrap Blog still has Feedburner for RSS and email subscribers.

Are you happy with it there?

[vmialik]

Great question EGOL,

One I have given a good thought after a Google Reader death. G Reader being such a popular tool that I would have never thought would die, had it not been the Google's farewell message.

For me feedburner is also in that same category of a very popular tool that carries a big chunk of necessity in it.

Having said that I am not switching (yet) for the following reasons, and conditions that need to be met:

1. Official message from Google, I am hoping and for experience hoping to hear some time to export find an alternative.
2. Until then I am happy with feedburner, it works well.
3. I am hoping/assuming just like in Google Reader case, with Google's official announcement, much better alternatives will arise to jump on. For example when Google Reader first made the announcement Feedly was good but it was no where near previous Google Reader I did switch over and try Feedly (better safe then sorry) but was still using Google Reader because Feedly did not work like Google Reader, then after a while came inoreader.com and it was in response to Google Reader's shut down and it was love at first sight.
4. I dont really see need to switch and waste time and resources if it works. I am hoping and assuming there will be easy method to export all the subscribers/feeds/etc when and if Google shutdowns.

Also for others interested in making the switch now, here are some great alternatives, and a great article:

http://www.kevinmuldoon.com/feedburner-alternatives/

[EGOL]

Thank you for this great response, Vadim.

You make a good point about waiting for Google to announce that Feedburner is closing.  I am quite confident that they will have the courtesy to give at least 30 days notice to publishers.  This is what they have done with all of their other closed products.

I have recently received a few messages from subscribers that the Feedburner messages were not opening in their email program.  That is what prompted me to reconsider Feedburner.  The number is very very small compared to the total number of subscribers.

So, I think at least for now I will stick with Feedburner and hope that when they finally close that the available alternatives will be even better than they are now.

Thanks again.

[Doc_Sheldon]

I'm still using it, Egol. I've had no complaints from subscribers, but of course, that doesn't necessarily mean there are no issues. Since I've never monetized my feed, the Adsense issue didn't affect me. I imagine my complacency is temporary, though... it's likely to break sooner or later.

The main reason I haven't moved to a different feed is that of the few I've looked at, none appealed to me. So any suggestions that pop up here will be welcomed.

[Doc_Sheldon]

Thanks for the link, Vadim. There are a couple of options there that I hadn't considered.

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[vmialik]

Hi Oriole,

Please clarify how shopify and feedburner/RSS interconnect? Thank you