With the launch of community.joomla.org you may have noticed Joomla relying much more heavily on a new partner ... Feedburner.com.

We're now running all RSS feeds in this section of the site through Feedburner. We've also moved the Joomla Extensions Directory's RSS Feed over.

There are four main reasons for doing this:

1. Better Statistics - We can count how many people are subscribed.
2. More Features - You can now subscribe by email, send the listings to a friend and even submit them to Digg.
3. Easier Updating - If needed, we can change the location of your feed without breaking anyone's subscription.
4. More Secure - We used to provide a full RSS directly from the Extensions Directory. Several sites were taking this and creating their own copies of the JED. The problem was that these copied sites didn't update their listings whereas the JED is constantly monitored for insecure or abandoned extensions. It was becoming normal to see a component with major security holes still being promoted on these scraper sites. Feedburner has measures in place to prevent people from doing this.

If you haven't done so already, subscribe to the new JED listings via http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaExtensions