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Sorry about that! Looks like the server got OOMKilled at one point and failed to recover. It should be back up now and I'll work on a fix.

Thanks! I'm not able to reproduce this on my end, but if you send me the exception (here or via e-mail), I'd be happy to take another look!

That's right, the UI and the Audio Engine bits are in Swift, because it's easier to interface with those Frameworks directly from Swift (and not fight the platform). Everything else (the Database management & the models, the download manager, ID3 parsing, parsing release notes, syncing with the backend server, etc.) is implemented in Racket and is portable.

The app store labels are somewhat broad, but that refers to the error tracking that the app does. When an unhandled exception occurs in the app, that error is sent to Sentry.

Yeah, that is plainly not “no tracking”. Developers are not entitled to the events that occur on devices that belong to me unless they obtain my permission for such surveillance first.

I will never understand why developers believe that they are entitled to information from devices that they do not own.


Yup, unfortunately Podcatcher works the same way and that explains why you'd be getting that error, since the server can't access your feed. That's certainly something that it could support though, but you would obviously not get any push notifications for that feed.

Not yet, but it's on the list!

Noted! There is already an undo function, though. If you seek, an undo button pops up. Also, if you go to settings, there's a "History" view where you can also undo from.

Every podcast has its own RSS feed. As for the index, I use Podcast Index[1] and the iTunes API.

[1]: https://podcastindex.org/


Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. It actually only downloads at most 2 episodes per podcast at a time, but that's still not great for your use case. I do plan to add per-podcast settings in probably the release after next, so stay tuned for that!

Yep!

Yahtzee is one of my favorite writers. I need to get back into the last couple books of his I haven't read.

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