WordPress is retiring its Feed Stats page today.
As important to us to be constantly adding new features and functionality for you guys, sometimes we have to retire or prune things that just didn’t work out or that we don’t have time to focus on right now.
So today we bid farewell to our good fried Feed Stats, which tried to tell you how many subscribers you had to your blog and what software they used. However it never grew out of that awkward teenager stage, and wasn’t used very frequently.
The code isn’t dead, just taking a break. Perhaps someday feed stats will return, but when they do we hope to do a much better job of collecting and presenting the data.
So, from now on Feedburner will rule the roost. Anyone feels that Google maybe behind this as they have taken over Feedburner and having that as the only feed statistics measurement mechanism would be really profitable? Not that the feed stats provided by WordPress was reliable, but it is just that it is a competitor less.
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