For what it‘s worth, we received absolutely no notifications from Google about this. No explanation of how we had „violated“ their policy. And it was doubly nice of them to do this over a long weekend when we were all off and away, so that nothing worked for multiple days before we had a chance to dump their RSS feed system completely.

And… apparently we were not alone. A bunch of other sites had the exact same experience and there are a bunch of people asking what the hell happened. With no explanation, no notification, Google just made a lot of websites‘ RSS and Twitter feeds break completely. And this includes some other high-profile bloggers as well, like Violet Blue.