One very bullish development for nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 is that the Apple podcast app is increasingly broken. It's now just marking random episodes as played and deleting them.
It used to "merely" do that for Patreon RSS feeds, but it now does it for all shows.
That said, I've noticed episodes often appear many hours later in Fountain than on the Apple Podcast app, to the point where morning podcast show up in the afternoon.
Late appearance of podcasts in Fountain has been a problem for a good while now. nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2 can you explain why that happens? I have some podcasts that regularly appear a day later than published - which makes me miss these shows because I would have to scroll back before I see them
I think it's relying on https://podcastindex.org rather than polling RSS feeds directly.
That index might be adding some Podcasting 2.0 fields that you want, but the app should probably still poll RSS feeds directly to look for new episodes. Any missing 2.0 metadata can be added later.
Obviously not a trivial thing to implement.
An easier solution might be if we can zap the index to hurry up and refresh our favorite shows.
nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 could really need visual design update though, less convoluted more calm and spacious. Willing to help for free.
