Podcasts in 3.5 - Overview Page

[Frank]

First: Everything works fine, I only have a problem of usability.

Bevor 5.3 all of my podcast-channels where displayed on one page. I was also able to show all episodes on one page by clicking on "plus" (show episodes). So I was able to overview all episodes of all podcasts on one page.

Now, the Podcasts are displayed with an Icon and below is a List of the 10 newest Episodes.

It seems not possible to get a "all episodes of all Channels on one page view"

Sorry for my germish-english, I hope you understand what I mean.

Any Ideas how I can back the "old Podcast-Overview" plus the new episodes view?
It is possible to show more than 10 newest Episodes? I got a lot of podcast channels..

thanks for any hint!



greetings
Frank

[enix]

Seconded, the old layout works much better for me.

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[grumpwagon]

I love the new way. I'd be fine with a setting to increase the number of recent episodes displayed, but I don't understand the use case where it is more convenient to click each individual channel to see if there is a new episode rather than just seeing the new ones. To be clear, I'm not trying to be snarky, I really can't think of why and am curious.

The only thing I can think of is if you have a bunch of podcasts that you don't listen to. I'm sure that's not actually the case, but I can't think of another use case that makes sense. Perhaps you can expound on it? If you just want to see if one (or a few) channels have new episodes, why doesn't just clicking on the channel(s) you're interested in work? Why do you frequently have enough new unlistened to episodes that the old layout works better? From a UX designer's perspective, having a routine task (checking for any new episodes) take many clicks (and more clicks per podcast feed subscribed) doesn't make sense.

What specific tasks are you trying to perform that worked better with the old way? Again, I'm being genuine in my curiosity here, not trying to be a dick.

[Frank]

Ok, I will try to explain it in another way.

Example: I have 5 Podcasts of News, every one is updated 3 Times a Day. I am not interested in every Matter of News, so I want to choose the interesting episodes only.

Old Way:

1 open podcast page
2 scoll down
3 click on button to load new ones
4 refresh page
5 Show all episodes
6 choose episodes and add them to the playlist
7 listen

7 Steps to the goal at all

New Way:
1 open podcast page
2 scoll down
3 click on button to load new ones
4 refresh page
5 open podcast channel nr. 1
6 choose episodes and add them to the playlist
7 open podcast channel nr. 2
8 choose episodes and add them to the playlist
9 open podcast channel nr. 3
10 choose episodes and add them to the playlist
11 open channel nr. 4
12 choose episodes and add them to the playlist
13 open channel nr 5
14 choose episodes and add them to the playlist
15 listen

So I have 15 Steps with the new design in this example.

I have more than 20 channels to update. With 5.2 this needs still 7 Steps. With the new overview page Its really hard work to get to the goal.
Can you follow me? - Sorry for all mistakes, my english is a bit rosty.
greetings
Frank

[grumpwagon]

No, I see. That makes a lot more sense, thanks! I was thinking of a (what I'd consider) more traditional podcast that updates a few times a week, rather than a few times a day, and where I'm interested in most of the episodes. I think for that style of podcast, the new way makes a lot more sense. I didn't realize there were feeds that were updated as often as your feeds, where the old way clearly makes more sense.