My Followers are not getting email updates!and
My blog does not update, on my Followers blogs!and
My blog can't be viewed! All that I see is the gears turning!!!All of these blog owners are publishing blogs which produce feeds, which are too large.
In general, a newsfeed can be any size necessary. There are two secondary details, however, which can make a Blogger blog, publishing a large newsfeed, problematic.
There is nothing basically wrong with large newsfeeds - but blogs which use dynamic templates, and blogs which produce feeds redirected through FeedBurner, can have problems when publishing large feeds.
We're currently seeing blogs with large feeds causing problems with dynamic templates. This produces one more case where we end up prescribing a non zero Timeout setting, for dynamic views.
Besides dynamic template display problems, blogs with large newsfeeds can produce problems, when redirected through FeedBurner. There are two approaches to making a feed smaller - use less posts - and alternately (when possible) format posts using Blogger post editor, instead of using Microsoft Office.
To diagnose a large feed problem, one can use any text browser, such as Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer, or maybe Web-Sniffer View HTTP Request and Response Header. Either product will provide a size display.
Feeds over 512K in size will be problematic, with either dynamic view, or FeedBurner redirection.
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