@marcoarment I just want to say thanks for your work. Specifically, I like the delete feature. I use it for daily and hourly news podcasts. I only want the most recent, no need for old news.

I'm no coder, so I have no idea what you do to get this app to us, but thank you. I'm a pastor and it is discouraging when someone tells me they know more about I do in something I have studied for 20 years when they are just telling an option they thought of 15 seconds earlier. So I won’t do that to you.

@marcoarment probably not with your time or the UI clutter but an idea is a new, toggleable and visible “keep” flag per episode. It automatically enabled after a couple seconds of play and then the “only keep the latest x episodes” would use simple logic on anything not marked keep.

Doesn’t solve multiple devices I don’t think and you might want the flags existing only if users enable the keep x episodes feature.

@marcoarment Have you considered developing an scripting API for it? 😉

EDIT: Saw your next toot, and you did! 😂

@marcoarment Could you crowdsource the design of this feature on a site like Reddit that allows up/down voting?

While some suggestions will be impractical/not general enough, you might get some useful suggestions that you hadn’t yet considered.

@marcoarment maybe an 'info' circle button that explains the exceptions / behavior next to the selected number of episodes to keep??

Of course that would require users to read...

FWIW, I'm a fan of the redesign, moreso now that my fingers have figured out where to go again!

@marcoarment Ah, this must be the reason for all the reports about episodes disappearing from playlists, or playlists not showing the right content.

I must admit these made me wait before updating the app. I have never enabled any Episode Limits, so I shouldn't see anything unexpected.

@marcoarment I think the root issue is how semi-conflated “downloaded”, “unlistened”, “current” and “was never current” are. I totally understand the benefits of tying them all together to a single read/unread state but I think the issues that you’re getting are indicative that it’s a leaky abstraction.

To me, anyway, my history is what’s important - that should never automatically change. That’s precious, time that I’d have to spend with my poor memory figuring out where I’m up to everywhere. In contrast what’s downloaded is sort of an implementation detail that should automatically change based on my settings, my storage, as it downloads, etc.