There’s also the matter of your ISP and if you’re behind some sort of cache as well.

It’s come up in the forums before and, when tested, that’s usually the issue. We’ll see an updated feed direct from wp.com while the poster isn’t for one reason or another.

My post was more like a throw of my problems with the feed, and asking for WordPress attention to this persistence problem, because due to that, i got less 800 visitors. And by the way, the feed i’m talking about is http://flashenabled.wordpress.com/feed, because the feedburner feed just updates through wordpress feeder. So, if the 1st one doesn’t update, that means the all the other will not be able to discover that there are new posts. Moreover you read my post at 11pm, if you see, i posted this open letter at 5:45pm. And it was the last post i’ve wrote today. But the problem wasn’t with this one, it was the previous posts that i wrote in the morning, and only at 8pm were being delivered trough the feed. In the end, i spent around 9 hours waiting to get my feed updated.
And this wasn’t the 1st time. I forgot already how many times my feed didn’t update. Sometimes almost for 24 hours. Isn’t incredible???

But i still like wordpress, and their staff. I just think that they could improve this feature, by giving to the blog author the possibility to update himself his blog feed each time that a problem occur.

Brgds,
CPinho

Friendly reminder that there is a support forum as well. Bitching on your blog doesn’t do much good I’m afraid as few people will see it.