On May 12th it seems my custom RSS feed somehow disappeared from Typepad. Feedburner is showing a massive dropoff in subs: nearly 4/5ths of my subscriber base: OOPS.
I've let Typepad use its default Atom feed and autoconnect to Feedburner now (the old system was set up before Typepad had direct links with Feedburner).
Ideally - isn't this the point of Feedburner? - y'all shouldn't be affected, and the feeds will resume. Let me know about any issues, although of course if there are you won't be reading this. Sigh.
I just got a slew of updates. Was wondering why you were so quiet ...
Posted by: PseudoNoise | May 18, 2010 at 20:49
Yeah, same here. Seemed like a lot of updates to get all at once.
Posted by: Trin | May 19, 2010 at 05:48
Hi Alice,
I'm one of the software engineers working on TypePad. It's concerning that your RSS feed disappeared. Would you mind letting me know how you implemented your custom RSS feed so that I can investigate? Did you use advanced templates?
Thanks!
Martin
Posted by: Martin Atkins | May 20, 2010 at 20:12
Oh hello Martin!
I used to have www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/feedburner.xml as the custom rss, but the file seems to have disappeared (and no, I didn't delete it, I never go in and delete any files :)) - this was created when Wonderland used to run on advanced templates. It doesn't any more btw.
A.
Posted by: Alice | May 21, 2010 at 12:18
Alice,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I think the problem here is that your custom RSS was a template in your Advanced Templates design, but you've now switched to a Theme Builder design, so the custom advanced templates you created are no longer used.
It sounds from your blog post like you got things sorted out using TypePad's new built-in FeedBurner support, so hopefully things are working okay for you again now, but I'm sorry for the confusion around your custom RSS feed as you switched designs. If you want to find your custom RSS template I think it's probably still hanging around in one of the other designs you have in your account, though hopefully you won't need it now that you're using TypePad's built-in feeds.
Thanks for taking the time to tell me the additional details!
Posted by: Martin Atkins | May 26, 2010 at 05:51