It’s clearly not profitable, and I can kinda understand that people who bought the app once in 2013, like me, don’t create a good business model.
I never bought the web app back in the day, so I never got grandfathered into Premium, but I was fine with them adding premium features that I couldn’t access.
But the forced ad shown on my podcast list AND the player UI, with a cheeky X button that doesn’t actually close the ad, is a step too far. I have a lot of respect for this app and the original company who made it but I’m almost at the point of switching.
I’d love to fully self host my podcasts. Unfortunately the self hosted options are all lacking on Android, so I’d probably look at something like AntennaPod but I’m not clear on whether that has a web player or not…
It’s clearly not profitable, and I can kinda understand that people who bought the app once in 2013, like me, don’t create a good business model.
I never bought the web app back in the day, so I never got grandfathered into Premium, but I was fine with them adding premium features that I couldn’t access.
But the forced ad shown on my podcast list AND the player UI, with a cheeky X button that doesn’t actually close the ad, is a step too far. I have a lot of respect for this app and the original company who made it but I’m almost at the point of switching.
I’d love to fully self host my podcasts. Unfortunately the self hosted options are all lacking on Android, so I’d probably look at something like AntennaPod but I’m not clear on whether that has a web player or not…