Feedburner used to have a really nice RSS subscriber growth graph. I loved it. But then one day they were acquired by Google and they changed their nice chart to an interactive flash thing that was slow and looked just awful.

Here is how awesome the graph used to look like:

This graph was taken from my “one year of blogging” post.

And how it looks now:

This graph was taken from Feedburner stats dashboard today.
Choose “Show stats for” -> “all time” to generate this graph.

This critter takes 35MB of RAM, responds in 4 seconds and worst of all, looks very, very ugly. I don’t know why would anyone replace a nice 6.5KB...