To nudge the discussion gently back to the original question: Since feedburner does replace the original hub with the Google hub, then it should also forward the notifications to the Google hub. I did some testing on the TechCrunch feed and I can't get it to send me notifications (it used to, in the past):
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch Has anyone else encountered a similar issue? Waleed On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Martin Atkins <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 06/09/2010 01:30 AM, David Recordon wrote: > >> A few days ago I saw that Feedburner was overwriting TypePad's hub in >> my feeds. This occurred even when disabling PingShot. >> >> > Conceptually it seems okay and proper that Feedburner, which proxies the > feed content, would have its own hub that proxies the hubbub notifications > rather than linking to TypePad's hub. > > (If the FeedBurner feed linked to TypePad's hub directly that would fail > because the TypePad hub allows subscriptions only to feeds recognized as > being on TypePad; the hub will reject subscriptions to a feed that is served > from FeedBurner.) > > With everything set up properly, the setup should be: > > (End Subscriber) > | > | > (FeedBurner's Hub) > | > | > (FeedBurner's version of the feed) > | > | > (TypePad's Hub) > | > | > (TypePad's version of the feed) > > In other words, FeedBurner must act as a PubSubHubbub subscriber in order > to get the real-time updates from TypePad, update its local representation > of the feed and then send out its own ping to its own hub so that > subscribers to FeedBurner's feed will get notified. If everyone's acting > correctly per the above diagram then hubbub will still work even with the > FeedBurner indirection. > > I wonder if right now FeedBurner is actually polling the TypePad feed > rather than subscribing to it with hubbub, thus causing polling latency in > the updates to the FeedBurner feed. Can someone at FeedBurner/Google verify > that FeedBurner does actually proxy through PubSubHubbub pings from its > source feeds? > > >
