According to Feedburner’s stats, this blog currently has somewhere between 45 - 55 subcribers. I am a bit puzzled by this, seeing how I went almost a month and a half without posting before I wrote the post about Working with bbPress, and when I checked my stats around the time of my last post before that they were lower than the current numbers. This makes me question the accuracy of FeedBurner’s numbers, and with this post I really just want to make a shout out to see if anyone actually is subscribed to …

In this day and age it seems that the number of RSS subscribers a website has becomes increasingly important for its status. Particularly when it comes to blogs, it has become the flavor of the month for judging its popularity. This trend has undoubtably been aided by the fact that large, popular blogs such as for instance Techcrunch publicly display their feed subscription numbers. Thus it has become a way for bloggers to give their new readers an indication of how popular their blog is by indirectly saying “Hey look, xxx people already subscribe to this blog, so it …