Karl Poe

Periscope simulated timeout expired

I wrote a little rant about Google a couple of days ago. Since they have not yet solved the problem (or even attempted to), I found a temporary workaround posted here.

Basically what you need to do is take your original feed (not FeedBurner address) and create a pipe for it at Yahoo! Pipes (you will need a Yahoo! account). For example in WordPress the default feed address is www.yourblog.com/feed. To make matters more simple, you can clone this pipe and change Fetch Feed block with your feed.

Save the pipe and don’t forget to change the name as well as description (or you can remove description all-together). Use the same name for your pipe as your FeedBurner feed, because it will be shown on subscription page (so don’t call it something like “Backup”).

Now copy RSS address for the pipe (not pipe URL) and use it as your source feed in FeedBurner.

That’s it!

Oh, and don’t forget to turn off FeedBurner plugins as it will create an infinite loop (pipe will not be able to access the original feed).

Hope this helps some people and also that FeedBurner will step-up it’s game and fix the darn problem.