Podverse @podverse@podcastindex.social

*This is just our interpretation of what "Podcasting 2.0" is. If someone asks us, we try to explain it as non-technically as we can, and focus on what it delivers to podcasters and listeners.

Podcasting 2.0 is a collaboration between podcasters, listeners, and app developers to design new features in public and make them available to every podcast app.

The podcaster just needs to add Podcasting 2.0 tags to their RSS feed, and then any app can deliver those new features.

If you love podcasting, please join the discussions at https://podcastindex.social and help us expand what is possible in podcasting :)

Podcasting 2.0 is making new features possible in podcast apps.

- Livestream notifications
- Bitcoin donations (boosts)
- Bitcoin superchats (boostagrams)
- Searchable transcripts

All of these features are now possible because of Podcasting 2.0.

@fdroidorg some kind people in the F-Droid IRC answered this for me.

Turns out we needed to add a regex to the end of this line:

UpdateCheckMode: Tags

So that it ignores semvers with -beta.1 and -qa.1 at the end:

UpdateCheckMode: Tags ^[0-9.]+$

F-Droid has been deploying our prod/beta/qa tags randomly for the past few months and I didn't even know 🤦‍♂️

I submitted a fixed release to F-Droid, but it might take a week or longer for it to appear in the F-Droid store.

https://github.com/podverse/podverse-fdroid/commit/56b614e5750b31840d13d3be51ec4d193ab3d37a#diff-a1c29ceedbe01d9900211458eaa4ccc2e18e0ad8d07030c27a73a6f02447b0fdR1246

Disaster...Podverse for F-Droid is completely broken in version 4.3.1 for all users 😫

Somehow our QA version of Podverse 4.3.1-qa.1 got released. It uses test environment data, so the app will be completely broken for all users.

It doesn't make sense to me though because the autoupdate to F-Droid clearly is for 4.3.1 not 4.3.1-qa.1 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/5b2388af1cc7b9744cba2d10ee007c66e0adafb9

I checked out our 4.3.1 tag and confirmed 4.3.1-qa.1 is not in it. What happened?

Any @fdroidorg contributors out there who could assist?

Updated the Podverse feature list! Some notable features:

- Sync your subscriptions, queue, and history across all your devices
- Video playback
- Podcasting 2.0 chapters
- Cross-app comments
- Transcripts
- Create and share podcast clips

All Podverse software is provided under a free and #opensource license. #FOSS

https://podverse.fm/membership

Podverse XMPP chat is powered by the Prosody, Snikket, and Converse #opensource libraries. Follow them in the #fediverse at @prosodyim
@snikket_im @jcbrand

NEW features added to the Podverse chat server:

- workflow diagrams
- like/dislike buttons
- browser notifications

Visit https://podverse.fm/xmpp to join!

NEW in Podverse 4.3.2: LOTS of bug fixes 🎉

- Fixed several different crashes.
- Fixes for resuming from last playback position.
- Fixes for syncing history with server.
- Fixes for "Mark as Played".
- Added a "Mark as Unplayed" button.
- Fixes for cross-app comments.
- Fixes for transcripts.
- Fixes for offline listening mode.
- Added XMPP chat information to the More > Contact screen.

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.podverse.fdroid/

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podverse&hl=en_US&gl=US

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/podverse/id1390888454

@adam @dave It was a challenge ironing out the F-Droid deploy process...but two F-Droid devs, Linsui and Licaon_Kter, have been an enormous help, and now the process is much more automated and simple for us.

@adam @dave yes Podverse is available on F-Droid! Our latest F-Droid release was 3 days ago. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.podverse.fdroid/