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Google is killing Feedburner email notifications – Here’s what to do instead

[Deleted User] · 2021-08-18 21:32:08

Remember Feedburner? It was a service, later acquired by Google that we all signed up in the early blogging days of the 2000s to give us analytics for our RSS feeds and all around improve them. It was a useful service at the time – and one of the most useful features was email notifications for new posts to subscribers.…

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Remember Feedburner? It was a service, later acquired by Google that we all signed up in the early blogging days of the 2000s to give us analytics for our RSS feeds and all around improve them. It was a useful service at the time – and one of the most useful features was email notifications for new posts to subscribers.
Most of us forgot that Feedburner existed; it’s one of the plumbing bits of the internet that once you set it up – you didn’t need to think about it anymore – it just kept working. Google has dutifully kept it working, despite not updating it in any way since probably the year 2010. One wonders if it was being kept working with twine and hope.
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