Remember that great idea I had to route all of our feeds through Feedburner? Well, it was working reasonably well until this morning. To get our RSS 2.0 feed on board, Typepad told me that I needed to change the output file. Unfortunately, this jettisoned many of our subscribers to the old feed. It's not that I didn't think of that possibility -- and I took some steps to mitigate the damage -- but I didn't go far enough. My sincere apologies to all of those subscribers. Please come back.

The good news is that all of our feeds now run through the new Feedburner feed. At least, I think that's good news. I know that some people like having multiple feeds out there, but I like the simplicity of the Feedburner approach.

UPDATE: More good news! I just received an email from Bloglines, and at least the Bloglines subscribers to that old feed will not be lost to us:

It may take some time for the correct number of Bloglines subscribers to show up on your blog. Please note that all who were subscribed to your previous feed URL (now removed from our system) have automatically been redirected to your main, active feed. This requires no effort on their part; the old feed is simply replaced with the new, valid feed in their Bloglines account.

We have tested this repeatedly, so we know you haven't lost any subscribers. It may take a day for the correct subscription number to update.

Now that's good service. Thanks, Bloglines.

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