A few bumps with FeedBurner
First off, I just want to say that I think FeedBurner is great and I’m really enjoying using the service. That being said, it hasn’t been without its bumps. And this is partly my fault, I’m sure. When I first set up my feed, WordPress was pulling the most recent 10 items. Thinking that looked a little sparse, I decided to bump the number up to 15. What happened? FeedBurner dutifully grabbed five more items almost immediately. The only problem was that I hadn’t just written five new items. It pulled the next five items that were older than the ten I had started with. So now my feed is not quite chronological. Being a rather anal person by nature, this bothers me somewhat.
The story doesn’t end there, though. I still thought my feed looked sparse so I decided to splice in my del.icio.us bookmarks every day. I’d seen other feeds that did that and had found a lot of good articles and postings as a result. So what do you think happened? Yeah, you guessed it. FeedBurner went back and grabbed several days worth of bookmarks (even back to January) and jammed them into my feed all at once. Yikes! Now I can’t even claim to be pseudo-chronological.
Now I have to take a deep breath and realize that I’m probably the only person on Earth who even cares that my precious feed items are out of order. And the problem will gradually go away as I post more and bookmark more. I just wanted to warn other people about the “perils” of going down this road. And I just had to find a little gripe about an otherwise excellent service.
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