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Re: Do you listen to LTB podcasts for Content or Magic Words?

Listening just for the magic words doesn't make any sense. With current price, you get about 3 or 4 cents of a dollar per magic word!! everyone's time is much more valuable than that. Magic words are nice, but quality of content is the only reasonable thing to consider.

Re: Forum Moderation

@cryptonaut

@fernando

@cryptonaut

@bitsol Is there a way, @cryptonaut, to apply to be a global mod? Or is that closer to admin, so only staff can?

Right now I think we have enough mods already, plus the forums have slowed down a lot. I don't think we will need any more mods or global mods until probably a few months from now when the forums are upgraded and start being used more.

Can you give some hints on what are you planning to change on the forums? I'd love to see it revive :)

Going to start on upgrades fairly soon (after all the blog upgrade stuff is finally done). Here is a quick run down off the top of my head of some changes that will be made:

• An actual "Search" page for searching through forums + the site
• User post history and better user profiles
• Somewhat improved design / UI for forum functions
• Ability to have sub-forums
• Different sorting options besides only ever sorting by "most recently replied"
• Reddit style upvote/downvote system, which is replacing the current "likes" system
• Reddit style nested comment threads
• Possibly some sort of tipping system (integrating Changetip could be pretty cool)
• +more!

All that sounds great, specially the sorting and searching parts.

Another thing I would love to see is a more efficient use of space. With the current design most of the screen real estate is used for things that are not the discussion (sidebar, profile information or even blank space on both sides of the column). This is fine for blog/editorial content, but for a forum I would love to see more discussion without scrolling. In a forum a big part of the content will be quoting, so density should be higher.

Re: Forum Moderation

@cryptonaut

@bitsol Is there a way, @cryptonaut, to apply to be a global mod? Or is that closer to admin, so only staff can?

Right now I think we have enough mods already, plus the forums have slowed down a lot. I don't think we will need any more mods or global mods until probably a few months from now when the forums are upgraded and start being used more.

Can you give some hints on what are you planning to change on the forums? I'd love to see it revive :)

Re: LTB Podcast feed not showing several shows

I uninstalled the app, installed and subscribed again to the feed. Everything seems fine now, so I guess it was me :)

Re: LTB Podcast feed not showing several shows

@coinadd1ct

@fernando

@cryptonaut hmm.. looking into this...

actually, just figured it out already. The feed shows posts from the "LTB Network Shows" blog category, and each show has its own sub-category underneath that. There is a bug where the feed does not include any of the child-categories, so unless the "LTB Network Shows" category is also specifically checked off, then it wont show up in the feed. Didnt notice this before because for whatever reason most people have been checking off both the parent and sub categories.

Will get that bug fixed ASAP. In the meantime, the latest episodes should show up now

Not sure if this is a feed's problem or mine, but I still get some problems. Yesterday I received a few shows I wasn't getting, but some play a different show that the one they say they are. I got P2P episodes 4 and 5, Beyond Bitcoin 19 and LTB 157. LTB plays fine, but the other three play Bitcoins and Gravy 39... As I said, I'm not sure if it is my player, the other day I tried to play Bitcoins and Gravy 39 (I had already downloaded it) and it played The Bitcoin Game 2... I'm really confused!! I'm gonna uninstall the player and start again, but I thought it was worth mentioning :)

I just checked every episode you mentioned in my feed. They are all the correct episodes. Good luck getting your feed sorted out, that is weird. Did you have this problem in multiple apps? You mentioned in the other feed that you used to use pocket casts and switched to another. I am curious if the episodes that are not what they are labeled for you, are incorrect in both?

Thanks for checking, it must be my app then. I haven't had the time to uninstall and start again or go back to pocket casts, I'll do this weekend.

Re: LTB Podcast feed not showing several shows

@cryptonaut hmm.. looking into this...

actually, just figured it out already. The feed shows posts from the "LTB Network Shows" blog category, and each show has its own sub-category underneath that. There is a bug where the feed does not include any of the child-categories, so unless the "LTB Network Shows" category is also specifically checked off, then it wont show up in the feed. Didnt notice this before because for whatever reason most people have been checking off both the parent and sub categories.

Will get that bug fixed ASAP. In the meantime, the latest episodes should show up now

Not sure if this is a feed's problem or mine, but I still get some problems. Yesterday I received a few shows I wasn't getting, but some play a different show that the one they say they are. I got P2P episodes 4 and 5, Beyond Bitcoin 19 and LTB 157. LTB plays fine, but the other three play Bitcoins and Gravy 39... As I said, I'm not sure if it is my player, the other day I tried to play Bitcoins and Gravy 39 (I had already downloaded it) and it played The Bitcoin Game 2... I'm really confused!! I'm gonna uninstall the player and start again, but I thought it was worth mentioning :)

Re: All Android podcast apps I try fail with LTB

@coinadd1ct

@fernando I'm not sure if it is a coincidence or someone is reading this thread and repairing feeds. I just synced DoggCatcher and I've received a few old shows that had not shown up when published. A few hours ago I synced and I got nothing.

After posting my above response, I realized that I had forgotten there were a couple podcast that did not show up in the feed. I started this thread and @cryptonaut was able to find the problem and correct it.

All the shows are now showing in the feed. Works perfect in pocket casts, and should work in any other app as well.

Awesome, thanks :)

Re: All Android podcast apps I try fail with LTB

I'm not sure if it is a coincidence or someone is reading this thread and repairing feeds. I just synced DoggCatcher and I've received a few old shows that had not shown up when published. A few hours ago I synced and I got nothing.