Feedburner, play nice! Gator ping woes
by Stii
Late last night I finished the Afrigator ping feature. This works well, provided you subscribed to Afrigator with your own feed and not a third party feed like Feedburner or Feedproxy. Here is the problem with Feedburner.
Your Feedburner feed updates in approximately 30 minutes after you’ve written a new blog post. This means that if you’ve written a new post and immediately pinged your blog via Afrigator afterwards, Gator doesn’t see your new post yet since it is not yet updated in your Feedburner feed.
I’ll be looking at how I can improve this, but at the moment it seems not much can be done :( What you CAN do if you prefer is to go change your feed url in Afrigator to use your own feed rather than using the Feedburner feed. Here is how you do it:
1. Log in to Afrigator and go to the Dashboard
2. Next to your blog’s description there is a “edit” link. Click it.
3. On the edit page, change your blog’s feed url to point to your own instead of the Feedburner one and save it.
As you can imagine, this would be critical once we’ve implemented XML-RPC pinging which updates your blog automatically everytime you publish a post. That feature however are still in development and I’ll let you know once we get there.
Hmm, that sucks. Perhaps you can queue a second afrigator ping request to occur after 30′ish mins for those on feedburner?
That was basically I had in mind. If it gets pinged and there was no updates, flag it and check it ever 30 mins or so till it finds something.