Think I might undo this change — lots of people hate it:
"Making Unplayed areas exclude played episodes; formerly, ‘unplayed’ really meant ‘not deleted’”
This has confused people since 1.0 because “Unplayed” could include played episodes if you didn't use auto-delete.
I decided to finally fix the problem by making the behavior fit the labels — but a better solution may be to revert to the previous behavior and considering changing the labels to be more descriptive.
@overcastfm Tbh episode management has always been one of my biggest points of frustration in Overcast.
For me at least the way PocketCasts allows you to mark an episode as either "Played" or "Archived" makes a lot more sense. Because that gives me 3 categories:
Played = I've already listened to this episode
Archived = I don't plan to listen to this episode
Unplayed = Everything that's not one of the other two categories.
That allows me to easily go back through a podcast's backlog to pick out episodes to listen to without having to search through all the episodes I've either already or don't want to listen to.
I'd also really like the ability to multiselect episodes. Like for podcasts that I don't plan to listen to the backlog of I'll select everything older than the 5 most recent episodes and archive them. Or for podcasts that put teasers in their feed I can search for "Teaser", select all, and archive.
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Kevin 
