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I suggest, if you are having echo problems and are recording in a closet with a bunch of reflective surfaces to take a bed sheet in with you and drape it over your head and mic (like a ghost!). Back before I had a better recording space it greatly reduced the amount of echo I got in my recordings.

Thanks for the link, this is awesome!

Sure, but once you have that large number of listeners, if ads only turn away a small percentage, there is no reason to not have them. They would just be refusing (nearly) free money.

My advice, skip the first 30ish episodes, they are rubbish, I had no idea what I was doing, and I have not had time to go back and fix them. ;)

I think there is a breaking point, but considering that most people who watch TV (at least here in America) seem to be okay with watching 20% advertisements....I think there is a lot of headroom in the amount of ads on podcasts.

I also prefer Duncan and Pierson to Carlin, but I have come to accept that I am in the minority. I have not actually listened to the last few Hardcore History episodes because I can't handle Carlin's "quote voice"

I don't know if this will happen anytime soon. I think there are two main problems:

1. As the article mentioned, there is a lot of growth with advertising here. Until that starts to taper off the "big" players in the podcast market (either creators or networks) will be hesitant to sign those types of deals. When they keep getting more advertising dollars it seems silly to move over to a Spotify like system.

2. Smaller players (often independent creators) are less organized and harder to get into that sort of system. This was not a problem for Spotify, or other streaming services, because the music industry had a well established Artist -> Label setup that does not exist for huge swaths of the podcast market.

You mentioned a history podcast, so just remember, you asked for this. I don't think anybody matches Dan Carlin for presentation (although his historical accuracy can be lacking) but here are some that are probably the most approachable.

* History of Rome: A narrative history of Rome from foundation to fall of the western empire

* Revolutions: A long series of various revolutions around the world (American, French, Haitian, etc. etc.)

* The British History Podcast: Chronological history of the British Isles, very detailed, hundreds of episodes in and the Normans have not showed up yet.

* When Diplomacy Fails: Covers various political/military events throughout history. Currently doing a deep dive on the Korean war.

* The China History Podcast: Episodes on all topics from Chinese history from ancient times to the Mao era

* The History of Byzantium: Picks up where History of Rome ended and continues the story until (theoretically) the fall of Byzantium.

* The History of England: Similar to British History, but moves at a far faster pace, currently in the reign of Henry VIII

There are of course many many more, but these are probably some of my favorites.

Shameless Plug: I create a podcast on the First World War called History of the Great War. I think it is pretty good, at least the more recent episodes.

The easier, and more lucrative, method is to setup some sort of Premium/Patreon/etc. method where you can either listen to the podcast, with ads, for free, or pay $X a month to support the show and get access to an ad-free feed.

I'm not going to necessarily get into a discussion about what constitutes a "slave wage" but most states have minimum wages far below $15/hour, in fact no state mandates that much, only a few cities.

https://www.minimum-wage.org/wage-by-state

Not only is this comment packed with good information, but the OP also has a fantastic last name.

While I like that they are walking these back, I have a feeling that people who lost a lot of supporters won't see a 100% recovery.

I only lost a few, but it already has me poking around at different options for the future.

I like that they are doing, but I think their DLC strategy is starting to cause some concern in various online gaming circles.

People loved it with CK2 because it expands the game so much, and it was unlike what they were doing before. This helped people forgive the fact that the base game was just okay at launch. Contrast that to HoI4 where the base game was not fantastic at launch (but probably not much worse than CK2 at launch in terms of stability and systems) and then the DLC train started and I saw a lot more negative comments online. There were similar conversations around the Stellaris launch "Oh they are going to make us pay or features that should have been in the game in post launch DLC".

That could just mirror changes in players being hyper-sensitive to DLC/Monetization strategies these days, and probably don't bother the people who are really into Paradox games and put hundreds if not thousands of hours into them.

I am very interested to see what they do next with Crusader Kings, since they have mentioned a few times they plan on ending the DLC soon. Transitioning to a CK3 seems incredibly difficult given how barebones it will feel.

I hope this grows like VS Code has since it was launched. Will hopefully add support for a lot of different DBs.

With this being Public Preview 1 I hope they add more DB type support over the coming months.

But you also do not have to publish everything you are given.

Far less. It does not seem any more complex than something like Gary Gigsby's War in the West and while it has a hill to climb if you want to learn how to play it, it is far from a 1500 hour game.

If your goal is to be pedantic, you 'use' a picture every time you look at it, so probably more often then every 6 months.

Remember that the problem goes far deeper than professional sports leagues with infinite pocketbooks. Every high school, college, and amateur league in the country would have to be held to the same standard, and they don't have that much money.

I think in general more people would be okay with it as "America's gladiator sport" if people were not starting to play it at the age of 12.

This also comes back to the pads and helmets. If you watch kids playing full tackle on a playground the actions are very different than when they are lined up with 20 pounds of gear on. Kids are going to tee off with their heads when it is going to hurt like hell.

Of course most people are going to support editing it to "treat medical conditions or improve health" the question becomes what precisely are "medical conditions" and when should they be treated.

Very few people are going to say that those people with cancer should die because we shouldn't do something to save them.

I guess it is time to get on the treadmill desk hype train.

I would also like to add Ease of Use to your list.

I have had to help several of my Patrons with basic tech support issues, like setting up RSS feeds in their podcast app. And I doubt that they would be able/comfortable with working with a service that is not as easy and straight forward as Patreon.

I can echo this, my Patreon isn't for software, but I get more per month on Patreon than I was getting per year through donations with basically the same level of marketing.

I just want to correct your comment unless anybody else sees this.

By default this is not how Patreon works. For most creators you are not charged until the end of the month, so if you sign up on August 2nd you are not charged any money, and the money doesn't go to the creator, until September 1st.

They do have a new setting for Patreon campaigns that lets the creators change this, but many have not.

You can find out more info about self-hosting and how to install 1.0 in the docs: https://docs.ghost.org/docs/getting-started-guide

Digital Ocean also has a droplet with a pre-1.0 version pre-installed and ready to use.

I am very glad that you can now rename Terminal sessions. I will often have several of the same type running.

Thank you for linking to that export utility!

I use Kindle Highlights very heavily while doing research, I then export them for use while writing. That extension will save me a bunch of time.

My solution was to Hide all from <person posting a bunch of garbage>, gotta take care of the problem at the source.