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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 11 Feb \ on: Not every app needs zaps bitcoin
I've been thinking about this a lot in the context of Fountain, where the theoretically core experience (podcast listening) has gotten worse and worse (to the point where it's no longer capable of basic functionality like remembering where I paused a podcast or knowing how to skip ahead thirty seconds) as they've pushed zapping more and more. Bitcoin can be a powerful enshittification force.
In any app, zapping should enhance the experience, not get in the way of it.
Sorry for the bad experience? What's the latest version of Fountain you've tried? (current is 1.1.16) Would you be able to share more specifics on what went wrong?
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1.1.16 is what I'm on, but it's been ongoing for months (so likely over versions), ever since the big UI interface that added music to the feed. The dealbreaker is that it fails to remember where I paused a podcast something like 60% of the time. That's basic functionality for any podcast app. Sometimes it'll start back at the beginning, sometimes at just an earlier timestamp, but when it does it on a podcast like Hardcore History, it means ten minutes wasted trying to find where I was.
(And yes, this is on downloaded podcasts, not streams.)
The secondary basic functionality that's gone is the skip ahead feature, which seems to work early in episodes, but later in shows, often skips me back to the previous skip point (so if I'm at commercial break 2, I hit the skip ahead button and find myself at commercial break 1).
Again, these are basic, not advanced, podcast playing features, and it really feels like the focus on music and being a wallet is when they went away.
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Thank you for the detailed feedback this is very helpful and I will investigate all your points.
One thing we do know to be an issue is that sometimes if the offline library cache gets too big it can affect playback. In 1.1.16 we've introduced a storage manager that lets you view and clear specific offline caches like audio / images / library etc.
Can you try clearing your library cache and see if that resolves the issue?
Either way I'll take the detail you passed on and we'll try our best to replicate it.
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My Library Cache shows 0 (the only cache with anything is images, which I just cleared). The Audio Downloads is the only other folder in Storage with any files at all.
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