Announcing WebSub Support
Yesterday we began rolling out support for WebSub, which will allow more precise timing for your podcast updates. ~25% of the popular podcast feeds on our service have WebSub support already, and...
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Summer Update 2024
There is a new iOS app update available in the App Store right now. I feel this update requires some context so I want to give some information on what's going on with Castro and what's coming down the...
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Castro Fall Update
2024.9.1 This week's release (2024.9.1) fixed some small UI bugs and crash issues from the previous build. I promised more alternate icon choices on social media but those were pushed to the next build...
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Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way
This is more technical than my previous posts. In terms of Castro itself, the app is doing great. Last week we again hit new user highs for 2024, presumably spurred by the pumpkin icon. The app is how...
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Holiday Update
Skip Outros / Holiday Icons The big feature in this release is the ability to skip outros. This is probably our most requested feature so I’m thrilled we can finally deliver it. Merry Christmas! In...
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Transcript Tag Support
Today we’re releasing our initial support for the podcast:transcript tag. This is not generating transcripts but rather displaying the ones that are already in the feed, consistent with our goal of...
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State of the App: Year 1
Merch As a celebration of one year with Castro, we are opening a merch store. We tried a few stores and this was the best combination of quality products and a good selection. As always, all proceeds...
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In the interest of disclosure, our frontend Craft CMS installation was hacked this morning. Unfortunately it's going around. The compromised version was up for around 6 hours. The Craft server is...
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We have to do a database migration and the servers are going to be in maintenance mode for a few hours overnight. Apologies for the short notice. Be back soon.
View ArticleMaintenance Complete
Servers back online. Good news we have recorded over 2,147,483,647 podcast events since ~2015. Unfortunately, recording #2,147,483,648 was a bit of a struggle and happened to fall on a holiday....
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