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40 pointsKevBurnsJr15 comments

For the first instant I saw the page, I thought it was one of those spammy, ad-filled domain placeholder pages. It's because the design is similar - boxy, list of links, no images. I'm not sure if that first impression will actually drive people away, but you think it might, you should change the design a little to distinguish your site from those placeholder sites. Perhaps adding a podcast-related image or a large logo to the main page would work.

I tried to submit this excellent podcast: http://castroller.com/podcasts/BigIdeas/2085839-Craig%20Kapl...

And it failed. What exactly do I need to submit?

Note, I'm the developer of CastRoller.

I was able to submit that episode by getting the RSS feed from the podcast's main page (http://castroller.com/Podcasts/BigIdeas) and submitting that directly.

I don't know if PodCastle is able to pick up the MP3 on the CastRoller episode page.

The episode is on PodCastle here: http://podcastle.us/e/CMB5V

Might be worth noting that there's already a podcast called Podcastle, so that might present some naming issues - I was confused for the first few seconds.

Also, seconding what roryokane said, your design does not look good. It's bland, it's boring, and it looks a bit spammy.

/me adds an episode of PodCastle(.org) to PodCastle(.us) http://podcastle.us/e/kbQub

Namespace collision proved non-fatal, but still a bit confusing.

Really loving some of the things happening in the "podcast" space lately (check http://said.fm/ for another approach). Does make me wonder why it's taken so long for these types of services to come to market though, I've been after decent way to discover interesting content outside of iTunes for years.

But was obviously not motivated enough to do anything about it myself :/

Very cool idea. Can you optimize the front page? Scrolling lags a lot on my Droid incredible.

Working on ways around this. Reason for lag right now is that iPhone requires that play events come from a UI event rather than any arbitrary javascript function call. To get one-click play on the homepage, you have to load all 40 players on page load. The alternative is 2-click play. 1 click to load player, 1 click to play. Opted for 1-click and laggy over 2 click and snappy.

Ah, I see. I didn't even notice you could click once to play (the play icon should have been obvious to me). Honestly, I would always click through to the description anyway to see what's up, unless it was a podcast that I regularly listen to.

Maybe Related: Over the last few months, I've really come to like most of the 5by5.tv podcasts. Two picks:

- the dev show, good combination

- on the internet, entertaining

Horrible name! There is a fantasy fiction podcast called PodCastle (http://podcastle.org). Seems like a conflict there.

I listen to podcasts 2 hours a day on my drive to/from work. Looking forward to you expanding on the site, keyword searches, tags, descriptions would be nice

Isn't reddit primarily about the comments/community? I don't see a way of logging in/creating a throwaway account or commenting on the particular podcasts?

Thank you for building this, I've been having trouble finding good podcasts lately and this is just what I need.

It keeps crashing my tabs in Chrome OS X

yooo nice

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