I just noticed that most episode pages on the web now only contain JavaScript, without any HTML content about the episode. Please tell me this is just temporary!
I’m using a custom piece of software that automatically titles all the links I post on my blog, and I list all the podcast episodes I’ve listened daily in my posts. The titles are parsed from the HTML, but the new JS-only pages don’t even have the episode title embedded in them!
For reference, here’s one episode where the page is just JavaScript: https://pca.st/nzceirq9
Here’s another one, which (as of this writing) still has actual episode-related content in the source code: https://pca.st/episode/b5553ab4-36d1-475e-bc30-b7fd4e0fe5e5
If this is a permanent change, it no longer makes sense for me to link to episode pages on Pocket Casts; I’ll have to go back to referring to various other podcast sites’ episode pages instead.
My Year in review stats are different depending on which device I view them on, which I think must be unintentional. For instance, the very first page says I’ve listened to ”66 different shows and 215 episodes in total” on my Android phone, ”96 different shows and 752 episodes” on my Android tablet, and ”96 different shows and 762 episodes in total” on my iPhone.
My most listened show is RA Podcast according to both the iPhone and the tablet, though they again disagree on the total listening time, whereas my Android phone says my most listened show is Let’s Talk About Sects. The entire list of most listened shows is completely different too.
I can provide screenshots if needed. I’m submitting this report from the web UI, though I haven’t found the year in review feature here, so I can’t say if it is similarly affected.
Over the past week or two, episode sharing links (starting with https://pca.st/) have been intermittently responding with 404 when opened in a browser.
Right now it seems that even getting the link in a browser is broken: the sharing popup does come up, but the text field where the URL should be is stuck at ”Getting the link”.
I tested the mobile app, and there sharing still works (i.e. the shared message gets the URL right away).