I’ve been trying to access my Feedburner feeds for about 12 hours with no luck. Could it be? No, please Buddha, no! Don’t tell me the Great Firewall of China has finally figured out we could still read blocked blogs via their feeds.
Ok, perhaps I’m over-reacting, and perhaps it’s just a localized outage or something. However, I try to access the Lost Laowai feed, and nadda. Then I try again with Tor on, and voila!
The site, www.feedburner.com, seems fine. I can sign into my account no problem and all that, but when I try to access any of the feeds at the sub-domain http://feeds.feedburner.com, it’s a no-go.
Please report if you’ve similar problems.
Added: Just moments after posting this, I saw Rick’s post at The Little Red Blog stating that it was just an overnight blockage. Perhaps the release hasn’t filtered down to my ISP here in Suzhou yet (please mamma pleaseeeeee let me play with the other kids).
Update 12:21 am, August 31st, 2007: Still down - Abandoning all hope. Sigh.
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August 30, 2007
1:10 pm
[...] expat blog-o-sphere, the Great Firewall of China has finally put out Feedburner’s Fire, as Ryan relates at Lost Laowai. It appears that most of feedburner’s features (besides delivering content to readers on [...]
August 30, 2007
3:27 pm
I’m in Beijing and am experiencing the same issue. Hopefully this blockage won’t extend to the online feed readers such as netvibes…
August 30, 2007
3:40 pm
Noticed the same thing yesterday. Still is going on here in Shanghai.
An alternative for feedburner in Wordpress is this plugin, http://www.chrisfinke.com/category/feed-statistics/
I personally prefer to keep my feeds in-house instead of outsourced:) just to avoid weird firewall hiccups like this
August 31, 2007
12:27 am
Gemme, I have to admit, I’m going to be spending the next couple days considering other options. And as the redesign of Lost Laowai I’m about to roll out depends heavily on RSS - I hope others do as well.
But damnit… that little feed counter is cool!
September 3, 2007
9:38 am
[...] However, damned if it doesn’t seem like the powers that be in this country aren’t out to stop us, and our wily noodle-blogging ways. First it was Blogger and Wikipedia, then EVERY free blog platform, then Flickr’s photo servers, and now… FeedBurner. [...]