Hey Jay, On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jay Rossiter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a way for Wordpress users to disable this? Since Wordpress has > an internal hub, I'm seeing one potential side-effect. Some sites (e.g. > techcrunch) use both Wordpress and FeedBurner. > > Since FeedBurner already uses the appspot hub, there are now two hub > references in the feed. Depending on which one you subscribe to you're going > to get completely different content. One which will come directly from > Wordpress without any of FB's analytics added (since I can only assume that > WP is handling feedcontent internally, and not HTTP-retrieving its own > content), and one from Appspot, which has been modified by FeedBurner. > > This kind of issue is only going to get progressively worse as more and > more services implement PuSH.
I'd say this is mainly a problem with FeedBurner, not WordPress. Feed proxy services should do it like this: 1) subscribe to the source feed with URL X, 2) publish updates using the proxy's hub (or a user-configured hub if desired) on URL Y, 3) have blog services advertise URL Y as their feed URL for subscribers. Then subscribers will only pick up the proxied feed and there will be no conflict. In the case of FeedBurner, I know the guys on that team are actively working to fix this problem. Does that solution make sense to you, Jay? -Brett
