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Comment by costcofries | Hacker News Reader

I wish your homepage made it easier to more quickly engage in podcast discussion. Right now, my feedback is that it takes too long to get to proof of value, your UI is confusing and it's not clear to me what, or how, I can get to 'discussing podcasts'.

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My thoughts exactly... I'm not sure if you can call it a reddit for podcasts if there's no logged out view

I'm not sure I'm following. You can jump into any podcast discussion via the homepage, either by clicking a comment or by searching for a podcast. You don't need an account to see discussion boards and you can even comment anonymously.

You are referring to those comments in the top right of the page? If so, that isn't obvious, it looks like a demo image.

fair enough :-)

> I'm not sure I'm following

Sign out of reddit and take a look at the homepage. You will see something very different from your homepage. It is a much easier interface to get started with. I lurked on reddit's homepage for a year before I ever created an account or looked into specific subreddits that might interest me.

Yes, loading is quite slow. I typed in a name and the search result showed almost instantly but it took over thirty seconds to actually get to the comment section. There's no reason you need to embed a player for the episode on the comment page. If I'm going to go to a web page and comment on a podcast I've already listened to the podcast.

There's definitely reasons for it (to easily link to clips in comments) but there's no reason to block loading the comments on loading the episode or the player

That's fair. When you are the first user to ever visit a site for an episode, we pull info from the show's RSS feed. So unfortunately we depend on the RSS feed host's response time.

But the experience around it can and should definitely be a lot smoother.

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