* RSS is awesome
* OP wrote an "RSS Discovery Engine"[1] that
"[...]works by taking the URL to a blog, or any site with an RSS feed, and examining all the posts in the blog’s RSS feed for links to other sites. When a link to another site is found, it’s inspected to see if it also has an RSS feed. If the new site has an RSS feed, then it’s added to the results list.[...]"
It frustrated me enough to look at ways I could support RSS and introduce a new means of discovery, but as it turns out, RSS is a finished spec and the authors requested that any changes to the spec happen under a new protocol and a new name. I ended up creating a new feed spec I've been cobbling together that supports better discovery. Check it out, https://readme.loud.so/
the TL;DR is that feeds can be treated as a show feed with a singular show, or as a network feed with multiple shows, allowing for a feed player consuming the new feed to provide UI elements that let a user select which of the network's shows they'd like to subscribe to, as well as a means to prompt the user when a new show is added to the network feed.
Also big shouts out to the podcast2.0 community who has been very welcoming along the way, they are doing great things within the confines of RSS as it stands.
https://medium.com/@everywheretrip/an-introduction-to-podcas...
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