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Sep 26 2007

Feedburner is Stupid – Especially when it’s blocked in China

Posted by: Chris in China, Commentary

Can China focused sites please NOT use feedburner to host your feeds? If you guys haven’t noticed, the feeds.feedburner.com domain is blocked in China.

At least post the original rss feed as well.

I noticed some sites are already doing this.  Thanks guys:

  • China Law Blog
  • Chinalyst- although they added a stupid alternative feed hosting service.  To bypass, the rss.xml is still valid

Thank you.

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7 Responses to “Feedburner is Stupid – Especially when it’s blocked in China”
  1. micenterprise says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    It wasn’t blocked until two months ago. Maybe they really haven’t noticed.

  2. drivel says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    The Greatwall of China,hahaha

  3. Chris says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    indeed… :-(

  4. Rick Klau says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

    We’re aware of the issues – and have been trying to reach contacts at both China Netcom and China Telecom to address the issue. Evidence at first suggested a routing error (users of one ISP couldn’t get to us but others could), but that may no longer be the case. We’ll post to our Forums (forums.feedburner.com) whenever we have an update.

    Thanks,

    Rick Klau
    Google (formerly FeedBurner)

  5. Chris says:
    September 27th, 2007 at 9:01 am

    Rick,

    Thanks for monitoring the blogs regarding this.

    Unfortunately, I have a feeling the “man” has “discovered” how feeds can bypass what they have blocked and are now blocking the feed services…..

  6. Richard Ford says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 1:30 am

    Ack… no wonder my page views have dropped off, not insignificantly!

    I have added a new second inside China special link… also added you to my blog roll. Do you feel special now? ;-)

  7. Host your own damn feeds! Provide alternative to Feedburner unacceptable dominance! at Chris’ Website says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 10:27 am

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