FeedBurner Farse
With the gradual move to my new dedicated server, I’ve been taking the opportunity to consolidate various website accounts to aid administration.
A good example is FeedBurner, where I had 4 accounts - one for each website (goDHN, Musoswire Blog, AdventuresInVista and AdventuresInMacOS). Each had a seperate username and password, and I was forever forgetting them!
FeedBurner allows you to transfer feeds to another user, so I started moving feeds to one account. Hmmm…
The first feed I transferred wouldn’t work. I was doing everything right, but it just wasn’t happening. I tried a different one, and that worked. The next one… wouldn’t work. What’s going on?
After much fiddling and reading, it turns out that you can’t transfer feeds if you are using FAN (the Feed Advertising Network). That’s fair enough - transferring your feed with monetary value should probably be protected.
But why oh why doesn’t FeedBurner tell you this when you try and transfer a feed?! It just accepts your request, and then proceeds to ignore it. How hard can it be to tell the user “sorry, you can’t transfer feeds with FAN” ?
C’mon… user experience!
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