Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Pocket Casts goes open source

ma.tt

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 154 posts

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#91

Post by tomrod »

scarface74 wrote: post #89
Karsteski wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, that's all fine and well. Just don't sell products then take them away after because you can. Imagine buying physical goods and having the business owner come to your house and take it away because it was costing them too much. Insanity.

So should they be obligated to keep supporting their servers forever? The better analogy would be like me expecting NordicTrack to service my exercise equipment for free forever. They aren’t going to take my physical equipment away. But they also aren’t going to keep sending me replacement parts and service techs out anytime I call them unless I keep paying the annual warranty. And before anyone replies that it must…

Yes, they are obligated because that's what a lifetime subscription means even if they added snotty fine print in a EULA.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#92

Post by simoneau »

stavros wrote: post #19

This is great news, I love Pocket Casts. Unfortunately, with Spotify acquiring Gimlet, a good chunk of good podcasts has become paywalled, and can't be listened to with any player. On top of that, Spotify absolutely sucks for podcasts, I can never find what I've listened to and what I haven't.

I have a moment of morning when a podcast I love disappears behind a firewall, most recently Heavyweight. Then I remember there are tons of other great podcasts out there I’ve never even tried and move on with my life.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#93

Post by Geezus-42 »

unreal37 wrote: post #65
zppln wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't see them innovating For a podcast app that's a feature, not a bug.

Politely disagree. The Pocket Casts app UI can definitely use some improvement. There's no such thing as perfection, and this app is far from perfect. Reading about how they were sold in 2018 to NPR explains A LOT of why it hasn't changed much in the last 4 years.

I think it's pretty close to perfect at this point and is a million times better that the interface they had when I started using it nearly 10 years ago.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#94

Post by leokennis »

nxte wrote: post #78
yzydserd wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this. Pocket Cast user 2013-2018 Castro user 2018-2022. I switched to them after an awful PC rewrite. Snipd looks interesting. May be my 2022-2026 daily driver.

When, oh when, will Castro make an iPad app? I'm convinced that no one is working on it full time.

At this point Castro is either abandonware, or they are over-polishing a huge (at this point vaporware) update…

There’s “move fast and break things” and then at the entire other part of the spectrum is the Castro team.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#95

Post by scarface74 »

tomrod wrote: post #91
scarface74 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So should they be obligated to keep supporting their servers forever? The better analogy would be like me expecting NordicTrack to service my exercise equipment for free forever. They aren’t going to take my physical equipment away. But they also aren’t going to keep sending me replacement parts and service techs out anytime I call them unless I keep paying the annual warranty. And before anyone replies that it must…

Yes, they are obligated because that's what a lifetime subscription means even if they added snotty fine print in a EULA.

And what court is going to force them to run servers forever and keep updating the software?

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#96

Post by remram »

andrepd wrote: post #76
mhb wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

PocketCasts is a superb app but I saw AntennaPod on f-droid, so I thought to give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised, the interface is very nice and syncs with gpodder.net

I think the question is: is AntennaPod better? Or did you switch because it was open-source and good enough?

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#97

Post by [deleted] »

moneywoes wrote: post #87
h3mb3 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, Spotify does some of that as far as I know. But I'd never switch to playing my podcasts there just out of principle (even though I pay the subscription too) because I don't like how they are trying to build a walled garden for podcasts and kill RSS as a thing.

They also inject ads into existing podcasts

[deleted]

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#98

Post by ESMirro »

mxstbr wrote: post #39

Who is making “Discover Weekly” for podcast episodes? I want personalized episode recommendations based on past listening behavior; I don't have time to dig through 30 podcast feeds to find an episode that interests me, which is why I usually only listen to specific episodes that friends recommend. I bet recommendations across all podcasts (not just ones I know of) that match my interests to others with the same list…

Apple Podcasts “Listen now” tab has a dedicated section entitled “More to Discover” that is based on listening history. It includes around 20 - 30 recommended episodes, mostly from podcasts you’re not following. It seems to update daily.

The recommendation algorithm seems to work well, I’ve discovered a few of my favourite podcasts via the feature.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#99

Post by simjnd »

izacus wrote: post #73
simjnd wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OS of the web crippling extensions and plugins because it hurts its ad-business is not what I would call "being focused on user-control". They're focused on control, yes, but not in our favour.

Users of Chromium have announced that they will reenable those extensions and plugins - so what, exactly, is the problem there? This is opensource working as intended - someone else can build it with feature set you want.

The problem is that OP used Chromium as an example of a project "focused on user control" when in fact it is actively trying to remove control from the users's hands.

I was citing extensions and Manifest v3 as an example of that, I don't care about the feature and what people can do to go around this.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#100

Post by ajryan »

alias_neo wrote: post #50
h3mb3 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, Spotify does some of that as far as I know. But I'd never switch to playing my podcasts there just out of principle (even though I pay the subscription too) because I don't like how they are trying to build a walled garden for podcasts and kill RSS as a thing.

Is ad-segment or sponsor-segment free podcasts a thing? I too pay for Spotify and I tried to get into some podcasts, starting with Darknet Diaries, but the ad and sponsor segments are just too jarring. I guess I'm not paying enough in my Spotify subscription to get it without that stuff, so who/what/where do I pay to get some podcasts I want to listen to without it?

Uhh Yeah Dude is one of the very first podcasts (est Feb 2006). Zero ads.
Post reply on HN