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WordPress 2.1 killed my feed

…but luckily it’s back from the dead.

I’d been wondering why it seemed a little quieter lately. Then, almost by accident, I discovered my RSS feed had fallen victim to a WordPress upgrade three weeks back. It had to do with the Feedburner Replacement Plugin I’ve used since last June.

According to Feedburner, my RSS readership dwindled all the way down to four. Yes, four. Which leaves me wondering why nobody mentioned it. And who were the four kind folks who didn’t delete my feed when the only thing left was a database error message? Should I thank them?

Howard, I was wondering what happened. There was this quiet spell…and then today a whole bunch in my Google Reader. I was super delighted about that…thought maybe you went to a warm island for the winter…and I’m so lazy these days with the RSS that I don’t click as much as I need to.

BTW, I didn’t replace your feed, but it came through today.

The issue was unnecessarily complicated by the plug-in I used. While it’s a great little add-on, they didn’t post enough bells and sirens to warn me about the upgrade incompatibility (which is, I suppose, one potential issue with any open source project). Thank God it wasn’t too hard to fix – once I actually realized it.

I link to you through http://www.thesmedleylog.com/feed/ using bloglines, and they say you’ve got 16 subscribers.

your posts came through bloglines without a hitch.

I have no idea what you folks are talking about. You might as well be talking eskimo. Does this rss stuff make life easier?