@LeatherDonut (hilarious name, btw): the first mention I saw was on the blog post at the beginning of the month. How long *has it* been under dev? Do you know? Yesterday, the account tweeted for the first time, which is why I thought it was worth a look. - Sarah Perez

Well, I'm certainly willing to take a look at this. FB is so badly broken, I've all but decided to pull my last site. In the meantime, I'm going to transition my email subscribers to a commercial mail management service and make ready to self-host, if necessary. - Chris Baskind

We need a Feedburner competitor ASAP! - Jorge Escobar

@LeatherDonut: I tried, awaiting a response. :) Anyway, I'm curious if you are able to dig up any more links, because a search for it on TC, as you suggested, delivered nada: http://bit.ly/uwhL. I know it was mentioned at the beginning of the month on Dave's blog - maybe you are remembering that? I found very little on Google - Sarah Perez

@LeatherDonut: nice sleuthing! now we know for sure - this is new (yay!) - Sarah Perez

Winer or not, I do hope a solid competitor comes. I'm also happy I've used all my own urls for my feeds. Easy moves. - David Singer from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Ooopie, looks like Dave is not behind this, just promoting it via his website. Correcting post sadly :( - Sarah Perez

Here's why the confusion. Dave wrote: "Steve called a few minutes ago, and I volunteered to write about this. **I also volunteer to help get a Feedburner competitor on the air**, whether it's a small independent project or something run by Microsoft. **Update: Feedsqueezer.**" - Sarah Perez

So that means it *will* do atom feeds as well ;) - Andrew Smith

Anyone interested in a more technical, but independent method should look at the Apache Abdera project: http://abdera.apache.org/ - coldbrew

YES! Down with FeedBurner! - andy brudtkuhl

I can't figure out how to leave a comment on the RWW article, do they close comments after a while (for spam prevention, perhaps) ? - DGentry

It seems like the SUP protocol friendfeed has been pushing would be very useful for an RSS service like this. For sites serving lots of feeds, it would allow the RSS provider to poll for updates a lot more often. - DGentry