site suggestions

[allthewhile]

1. Use some sort of script to make it the rss feeds easily copyable into the clipboard.

2. make the page "get this feed" more customizeable. Allow people to put a link to any webpage related to the podcast.

[Craig]

A few more suggestions:

1. Limit the top 50 list to feeds that have been updated in the last 30 days. (14 days?)

2. Show in parentheses after the name of the podcast the date it was last updated and/or offer a sort by last updated list.

3. Offer an RSS feed for the forums. (There are several plugins for phpBB that offer this capability.)

4. Show ranking (1, 2, 3) next to the entries in the top 50 list.

Thanks Chris!

Craig

[theFerf]

craig: when you say "show numbers" do you mean, the rank in the top 50 ... like, first, second third... or do mean, number of shows produced? or something else?

[Craig]

Sorry, right after I posted that I realized I should have been more specific. I meant the rank, like 1, 2, 3, etc.

Craig

[MyMacGuy]

Is it possible to see how many people checked out our listing, regardless of whether they voted or not.

Just curious
MyMacGuy

[theFerf]

Yes!

All you have to do is click on "Click Here to Get Podcast", it will look like this:

http://www.podcastalley.com/redirect.php?pod_id=12

and it will bring up a new page. scroll to the bottom of that page and it will say Something like:

There have been 5184 clicks on this Podcast

[tymcode]

I'd like to see a central place where people can discuss their experiences podcasting from a particular service provider. For those of us shopping a new ISP that's particularly podcast-freindly, this would be extremely helpful as well.

For example, we've all heard from Adam that .Mac's edge servers are currently configured in such a way that Doppler can't download podcasts. And whoever Dawn and Drew are using right now isn't cutting it -- downloads fail halfway through.

With a typical 20MB podcast it only takes 250 downloads to hit a typical ISP's monthy data transfer limit of 5GB, so I'm thinking we'll need a list of providers with no transfer limits... In my shopping around I discovered wide, wide variances in allowed transfers! For example,ValueWeb (http://www.valueweb.com/) is 10GB/month (500 downloads/month), and Powweb (http://www.powweb.com) is 5 GB/day (~7500 downloads/month).

Before I pony up the cash and hang out my shingle, I'd like to hear what others have to say. It's a pain to switch providers later on. I can't be the only one....

--Mike Jennings

[theFerf]

tymcode:

ask and you receive. please refer to this link:
http://www.podcastalley.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=15

I started a new forum for talking about podcast and web hosting (it is at the bottom of the main forum listing section).

Thanks for the idea!

[MyMacGuy]

...that was simple.

[theFerf]

determined to please.

[Cookiepuss]

Hey Chris. . .it would be easy to add the live-bookmark links to the head of the site. One for each feed offered. I refer to it a while back here (http://www.podcastalley.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=361)

:wink: