Podcast client developers -- don't give up like this guy did. Yes RSS is delicious but you all haven't done anything new with it since 2004 or so. No wonder the competition is catching up, they're actually delivering new features while you all haven't done a thing. RSS is like other web stuff, if you want to move forward you have to do things that will help your competitors. Stick your neck out, innovate, and smile when your competitors copy it. There is more to do.
Subscribable subscription lists would allow anyone to maintain a list of great podcasts, curated -- like a mutual fund, or a top 20 list. This has always been the problem with podcasting. Find me something good to listen to now. All the shows tend to repeat. I've heard that cast before, I say as I tell Pocket Casts not to add it to my queue. Discovery needs to be easy. This one feature will give me infinite options. And give other developers, not client devs, to enhance the whole field of podcasting. The user would just tell you which sub service they're using, and the rest is code. And not particularly difficult code.
I want to subscribe to a list that's maintained by people who listen to 100s of casts. And when I get tired of them, I'll fire all my guides and add some others.
This is one step more complex than handling OPML subscription lists for import and export, which you all already do. Now if you don't understand this, and why it's appealing them imho your client deserves to die a honorable death. If your mind is alive, then get with it, and I will help, and btw we can easily create apps that make it easy. We just need nodes on the network whose purpose is to maintain sub lists.
Here's the deal. I really did put together the system that makes podcasting work. Top to bottom. Would it kill you to listen to what I think the next step is? I can't hurt you, and I don't want to. I just want to see the thing that we all created by unwittingly working together, where you have to be overt in the working together to have a chance of surviving the boredom users feel by these products only getting superficial upgrades.
It's time to rock the f'ing boat! :-)
Podcasting forever!
It's even worse than it appears..
Friday July 24, 2026; 10:01 AM EDT
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How I see the network evolving | 0 | 5.62 | 27-07-2026 |
| 2 | Three-part ecosystem | 0 | 10.76 | 21-07-2026 |
| 3 | What is RSS.chat for Howard Rheingold | 0 | 6.56 | 20-07-2026 |
| 4 | rss.chat isn't really a product | 0 | 5.62 | 26-07-2026 |
| 5 | Expanded video and podcasting in Micro.blog | 0 | 7.17 | 27-07-2026 |
| 6 | When the walls came down | 0 | 7.88 | 28-07-2026 |
| 7 | RSS.chat has an API | 0 | 6.51 | 25-07-2026 |
| 8 | Notes on the Bandcamp post: | 0 | 5 | 03-07-2026 |
| 9 | How the web got gunked | 0 | 8.42 | 22-07-2026 |
| 10 | Как понять, что пора менять сервис рассылки, и какой выбрать? ... | 1 | 7.07 | 28-07-2026 |