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How do people discuss specific podcasts there? Never visited that subreddit before but the top entries seems to be discussion about podcasts, not discussions about content in podcast episodes.
Popular podcasts have their own subreddits that discuss each episode. Having a separate app/platform for this is going to be hard to sell.
This is unnecessary. The Reddit for podcast episodes is Reddit.
I appreciate this is a bit like the "we have 14 competing standards" XKCD, but there's a deeper, underlying problem that Podbabble tries to tackle: The majority of podcast discussion is either too general (i.e. debating the hashtag of a show as opposed to a specific episode), ephemeral (i.e. Twitter or live chat where discussion only happens within a few hours of episode release) and its almost always distributed (some on Reddit, some here, some there.)
Podcasting - albeit still comparatively tiny) is the fastest growing medium and I am confident that having a central, purpose built place for listener engagement will add value to the ecosystem.
Pardon my skepticism but how is this any better than r/podcasts/ - an existing community of ~2Mn+ people?
I can kinda see the logic - unfortunately sitting in front of my computer is my least favourite way to consume podcasts - and the workflow seems to break down quickly once you disassociate the two.
This is unnecessary. The Reddit for podcast episodes is Reddit.
Yes and this is the problem, reddit is reddit and the comment-quality is terribly low, often toxic and dominated by a certain ideology that is particularly dominant and vocal on reddit in particular. I think this has potential if they manage to keep the comment quality higher, somehow.
Pardon my skepticism but how is this any better than r/podcasts/ - an existing community of ~2Mn+ people?
Reddit never started by taking me to a giant signup page for a paid subscription. As someone who was mildly curious and might have checked it out of you presented something interesting I immediately left, maybe think about making the base landing page more interesting in hopes of gaining traction with users and then make another landing page for people you want to sell the service to.
This is unnecessary. The Reddit for podcast episodes is Reddit.
>The Reddit for podcast episodes is Reddit. Yes and this is the problem, reddit is reddit and the comment-quality is terribly low, often toxic and dominated by a certain ideology that is particularly dominant and vocal on reddit in particular. I think this has potential if they manage to keep the comment quality higher, somehow.
That said, maybe I'm just not in the loop, but I'm not aware of any subreddit dedicated to reviewing podcast episodes. Also, I'm not sure the Reddit format lends itself to creating a database of user reviews for certain episodes without heavy moderation and a heavy-handed approach to posting (for example, to avoid duplicates). A lot of this needs to be formulated into an automated system that only a custom-made site can offer.
Reddit never started by taking me to a giant signup page for a paid subscription. As someone who was mildly curious and might have checked it out of you presented something interesting I immediately left, maybe think about making the base landing page more interesting in hopes of gaining traction with users and then make another landing page for people you want to sell the service to.
Podbabble is free for users. It only charges you if you want to become a verified host and moderate your podcast boards. To me, this is preferable to selling your data and advertising to you. ( https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy-revision-2021... )