Wisdom

Don't fix a feed by publishing a proxy copy of it

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in the wild. Now there's going to be another feed that people are subscribing to. It's just going to be a mess and you don't want to get into that.

Episode 248: Thingamajigger (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:04:42 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

When a show strips chapters, the obvious fix is a second feed that points at the original enclosures and adds your own chapters and transcripts, a FeedBurner-style proxy. Dave calls it a bad solution: that feed gets out in the wild, people subscribe to it, and it becomes a mess. He'd rather have a private way to amend a feed.

Not in the audio. Parts of the reasoning ('your own chapters and transcripts', 'that feed is going to get out') are in Unknown-labeled cues and are summarized, not quoted.

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  1. Episode 248: Thingamajigger (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:11:41 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    tons of examples out there of podcasts that just for whatever reason, they're just not giving you something that you want. And there is just an annoyance. And if you had a way to sort of amend the feed in a private way,

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