Young analogue FeedBurner - FeedCat

Some bloggers, including me , are fed up with FeedBurner - that’s a fact. Tired of its hangs, incomprehensible failures in subscribers, unhealthy glitches and general tormoznatostyu. However, they injected, but chewed, because there is no alternative. Rather, it was not. Meet - FeedCat!

Let's find out in order what the service can do. I saw him literally a couple of minutes before I started writing this post. Because we will meet on the fly, and you, if you are not in a scrap, help me test it :)

Today, FeedCat is a young project in the Beta stage, but it can already provide all the basic functions of FeedBurner, i.e. count the number of subscribers and show you statistics.

The only critical difference, for me, is the inability to customize the appearance of the icon, with the number of subscribers.
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Another important moment, if we started with minuses, which confused me - this is a call to this counter via JS - why is it unclear (or rather understandable, but the usual Ctrl + R rule). Killed JS - left a picture and a link to the feed.

There is also a cant with the fact that the reader does not always accept the link that stands at the counter as a valid RSS feed. Apparently the creators of the service in the subject, because they made an additional link format xml.feedcat.net/wolotko , when it usually looks like feed.feedcat.net/wolotko . On the last page there is a link to the first one, ie feed gives you the opportunity to go to xml.

For some SEOs who are screaming to monetize their feed through Adsense, a bummer will happen - naturally Adsense is not there.

Well, as a final chord - there is no support for the Russian language, although I think this is a temporary phenomenon. And personally, I will do my best as an active tester. Curious.

Now let me list the main buns for you :)

• there is a Ping service, it is issued to you individually in your profile;
• the subscriber diagram is essentially nothing different from FeedBurner - so there will be a little less discomfort during the transition, if someone decides;
• the ability to specify the frequency of recalculation of the number of feed readers. From weekly to hourly - which is extremely thematic;
• There is an opportunity to add feed tags - this is a reserve for the future social component of the service, not otherwise;
• You can redirect subscribers from the feed, which will bring out FeedCat to any other, for example, to FeedBurner;
• You can select the skin for this page: feed.feedcat.net/wolotko;

Feature:
By default, the service pulls the FeedBurner feed, so when switching or duplicating counters, put the feed addresses of your engine, not FeedBurner. It is important.

In fact, that's all. And what else does a novice blogger need? It seems to me that such a set is more than enough.

I want to post this counter at my place, and if he arranges me I will use it.

Well, actually - try it yourself - http://www.feedcat.net/

And here is the button:

Feedcat