The Pod Sage

Dave Jones, collected

Wisdom

Anything critical belongs in the feed itself

there's a certain set of elements that are critical to the functionality of the podcast, make it work. And they're not like, sort of add on Extras, and monitor anything to do with monetizing, or that that should be considered critical to the functionality of the show of the podcast.

Episode 132: Felt-Manhood 00:37:05

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Summary

Elements critical to how a podcast functions, like the enclosure and anything to do with monetization, go directly in the RSS XML, not in side files like chapters. It's more reliable, and some hosts will never support the add-ons. Extras can be layered on later.

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  1. Episode 90: J and K 01:07:31

    The feed the this data lives in the feed, it doesn't live. The it only lives in the API, because it first lived in the feed.

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  2. Episode 132: Felt-Manhood 00:39:08

    I think that will come eventually in time, we can stick that stuff in there. But the base layer reliable stuff needs to be in the feed.

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  3. Episode 143: In the SCIF 01:00:26

    it's the same is the same thing is if it's in the feed, it's the feed, if it's in the feed, the feed is the source of truth.

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  4. Episode 144: Velocity 01:36:42

    It's like we're going live in 30 minutes. And then you'd have another post that says we're live now. I'm like, Oh, just put it in the feed? Yeah. Put it in the feed.

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  5. Episode 154: Fedified Blob 00:31:56

    because the feed is the source of truth, payment for itself. You know, the feed the feed defines itself,

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