Our dear, dear (uh huh) friends at Feedburner have been yanking us to and fro about when they’re going to pull the plug on our newsletter subscriptions. The cutoff date was supposed to have been earlier this week, so beyond that, we’ve been on borrowed time.
I’ve looked into a half dozen different options to switch over to and it just came down to what’s simplest. I don’t want to fill in fancy forms and templates to pack your email with (well, okay, I’m just lazy), so I’ve decided to just stick with a basic WordPress format. The default is delivery once per day at 7:00 central time, but I believe you can change that to as often as you like.
I’ve already turned off the Feedburner email subscriptions and imported them into WordPress. It should be a seamless transition other than the look and I may have to play with that a tiny bit but as you’ll see next week, I’m not going to have a problem with that. 
There are a number of people still reading the blog through various feed readers – I have no idea what Feedburner is going to do with that service, but I really encourage you to sign up for our email subscription instead. It’s only sent once per day when there’s a post, no spam, I never use your email address for anything else. I won’t even enter you into the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes!
If anyone has any questions or concerns about this whole thing, please don’t hesitate to email me.
Thanks for your patience!
~Barbara
I’m still getting you’re posts through email… so far. I started using Jetpack for WP and really like it. Is that what you’re using? I’ll probably sub that way and unsub from the feedburner emails. How did you import them?
Feedburner lets you save your subscribers in a CVS file which is just a type of Excel file (comma separated list or something or other if you open it with a certain program). Some types of email subscription services let you just upload the file, some make you do a line by line entry (which is what this one made me do), so I opened it up in Excel and just copied and pasted the entire column. I’m using Subscribe2 right now, it was the easiest for me to use with my software.
It’s just such a pain. I guess I won’t know for a couple of days how it all works out. I have my Facebook updating through my RSS feed too – I have no idea what’s going to happen with that. I’m not good at that end of things. lol
What? You’re not going to enter me into the PCH Sweepstakes? Why did I sign up with you in the first place?
I KNOW! Where’s the benefit?! lol
If you want some Viagra or if you’d like to be put in contact with a Nigerian who has an inheritance to distribute, I can work something out with you though.
I know it’s kind of late, but just thought I’d weigh in.
Feedburner isn’t discontinuing. Google is simply dropping the API, which had already been deprecated for about a year. The API is just stuff that shows you Feedburner stats and allows you to display how many subscriptions you have on an external website. The service is still remaining 100%. Just some of the extra tools that allow you to monitor your stats will no longer be updated or supported.