People don’t unsubscribe from RSS feeds, I’ve found

November 27, 2005 By

My old feed on Bloglines has 9,204 subscribers.
My new feed on Bloglines has 1,457 subscribers.

That tells me that people aren’t unsubscribing from old feeds and are just leaving them in place. It also tells me that Bloglines has a lot of “dead users.” (Users who aren’t using the service much, if at all).

By the way, it’s amazing how many dead feeds are out there. I deleted probably 200 dead feeds. Almost done.

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  • http://www.geekrant.org/ Daniel

    hmm well if you ask me, a proper move should include HTTP redirects (“Moved permanently — 301″) from the old site to the new, so that anybody with an RSS subscription or a bookmark doesn’t even notice — they just get bumped over to the new site.

  • http://www.geekrant.org/ Daniel

    hmm well if you ask me, a proper move should include HTTP redirects (“Moved permanently — 301″) from the old site to the new, so that anybody with an RSS subscription or a bookmark doesn’t even notice — they just get bumped over to the new site.

  • Chris C

    Since I only have Bloglines show updated feeds, the inactive onces are invisible. Besides, I’m the user/customer: why should I have to constantly update my system just because you had some crazy whim to break what was working!

    That’s especially true with businesses and marketing feeds. If you want to change something, fine. Just don’t break my feed link b/c unless your proudct is _very_ important to me I’m not going to work to keep up with you.

  • Chris C

    Since I only have Bloglines show updated feeds, the inactive onces are invisible. Besides, I’m the user/customer: why should I have to constantly update my system just because you had some crazy whim to break what was working!

    That’s especially true with businesses and marketing feeds. If you want to change something, fine. Just don’t break my feed link b/c unless your proudct is _very_ important to me I’m not going to work to keep up with you.

  • Chris C

    Since I only have Bloglines show updated feeds, the inactive onces are invisible. Besides, I’m the user/customer: why should I have to constantly update my system just because you had some crazy whim to break what was working!

    That’s especially true with businesses and marketing feeds. If you want to change something, fine. Just don’t break my feed link b/c unless your proudct is _very_ important to me I’m not going to work to keep up with you.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com/ Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

  • http://loxos.blogspot.com Sandeep

    Use Feedburner – but unfortunately wordpress.com does not handle Feedburner in its autodiscovery.

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