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And they re-host like Spotify does, but they do not respect chapters in your feed or in your MP3 or anything like that. And so we do not have chapters on YouTube, whereas we did go out of our way and implement Spotify's specific requirements for chapters on their platform. We do not have them on YouTube.

And they re-host like Spotify does, but they do not respect chapters in your feed or in your MP3 or anything like that. And so we do not have chapters on YouTube, whereas we did go out of our way and implement Spotify's specific requirements for chapters on their platform. We do not have them on YouTube.

What I'm thinking about doing is creating a second feed for every one of our podcast proppers that includes the chapters as timestamps in the show notes, which is how YouTube works as a creator. The way you add chapters in YouTube is super lame and manual.

What I'm thinking about doing is creating a second feed for every one of our podcast proppers that includes the chapters as timestamps in the show notes, which is how YouTube works as a creator. The way you add chapters in YouTube is super lame and manual.

It's probably actually a good solution for non-technical people because you basically just put a section of your description, a list of timestamps with a title, and it will turn those into the chapters inside YouTube. That's how it officially works. There's no chaptering functionality in their YouTube studio. You just put it in the description and it turns those into chapters.

It's probably actually a good solution for non-technical people because you basically just put a section of your description, a list of timestamps with a title, and it will turn those into the chapters inside YouTube. That's how it officially works. There's no chaptering functionality in their YouTube studio. You just put it in the description and it turns those into chapters.

And so I might start writing for every one of our podcasts a second feed file that's just for YouTube. and point YouTube at that one, and everything is going to be completely identical, except for we put the chapters in the show notes as timestamps, and that would give us chapters on YouTube.

And so I might start writing for every one of our podcasts a second feed file that's just for YouTube. and point YouTube at that one, and everything is going to be completely identical, except for we put the chapters in the show notes as timestamps, and that would give us chapters on YouTube.

I don't want to do that in our feeds generally, because it bloats them quite a bit, and our feeds are already pretty bloated due to being complete episode catalogs versus like the last 100 episodes. So our feed files are already pretty large, but that's something I've been thinking about doing for YouTube just to get the chapters information out to YouTube. However...

I don't want to do that in our feeds generally, because it bloats them quite a bit, and our feeds are already pretty bloated due to being complete episode catalogs versus like the last 100 episodes. So our feed files are already pretty large, but that's something I've been thinking about doing for YouTube just to get the chapters information out to YouTube. However...

There's just not that many people listening on YouTube yet. Or maybe ever, because we're a non-video podcast. A good episode, I think most recent Changelog News outperformed, and it was only a couple days ago. 500 people listened to that on YouTube. Typically we get 100-ish per episode over there. But I think having chapters over there would be appreciated. So I'm thinking about doing that.

There's just not that many people listening on YouTube yet. Or maybe ever, because we're a non-video podcast. A good episode, I think most recent Changelog News outperformed, and it was only a couple days ago. 500 people listened to that on YouTube. Typically we get 100-ish per episode over there. But I think having chapters over there would be appreciated. So I'm thinking about doing that.

I haven't done it yet. Now we're basically Kaizen-ing, so maybe we should stop.

I haven't done it yet. Now we're basically Kaizen-ing, so maybe we should stop.

Well, there's a little Kaizen in all the conversations. You know, you're always part of Kaizen is always be improving. That's always, you know. That's right. Improve without ceasing. All right. What's left? I would say what is left is just to thank everyone who is paying attention to this enough to care about this last how we produce podcast section. Maybe you don't care. Maybe you do care.

Well, there's a little Kaizen in all the conversations. You know, you're always part of Kaizen is always be improving. That's always, you know. That's right. Improve without ceasing. All right. What's left? I would say what is left is just to thank everyone who is paying attention to this enough to care about this last how we produce podcast section. Maybe you don't care. Maybe you do care.

Maybe you care about how we, maybe you got some ideas. Maybe you're like, man, have you tried this? Or I like that workflow, but what about that? Our stack is open source. And I would say open to contributions. There is a Zulu for that. So, or a Slack for that potentially, where maybe you can hop in there into a dev channel. And if you've got some ideas, you know, obviously it's open source.

Maybe you care about how we, maybe you got some ideas. Maybe you're like, man, have you tried this? Or I like that workflow, but what about that? Our stack is open source. And I would say open to contributions. There is a Zulu for that. So, or a Slack for that potentially, where maybe you can hop in there into a dev channel. And if you've got some ideas, you know, obviously it's open source.

You can fork it and do what you want, but you know, you can contribute, you can leverage the code base to learn. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know, almost, I wouldn't say instantaneously, but pretty close to instant whenever it makes sense. And so I think RSS feeds are pretty solid.

You can fork it and do what you want, but you know, you can contribute, you can leverage the code base to learn. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know, almost, I wouldn't say instantaneously, but pretty close to instant whenever it makes sense. And so I think RSS feeds are pretty solid.