I would love to see an index linking to initial text posts and to podcast link(s)! As explanation, I listen to podcasts while commuting, and often numerous episodes of Nonlinear Library (NL) because they are so short. I sometimes want to engage further, by re-reading them, saving them in a reading manager, checking the author’s other work, or reading comments (or adding my own). It would be helpful to have somewhere that links to text posts. If I remember correctly, NL made an intentional choice not to link from podcast episode descriptions to EA/LW/AF, in hopes of avoiding a deluge of engagement with posts, or communities as a whole, that do not uphold conversational and engagement norms that we so prize them for.
Should, or could, we request read-only links to posts?
might support sharing these posts more broadly beyond these communities, while minimizing the risk of unwelcome engagement (and supporting disclaimers to serve as an introduction to the community—”these posts are not endorsed,” or “this is a forum”).
Linking to the original post is the most requested feature! Unfortunately because of obscure technical reasons it’s quite difficult. We did to figure out a way to do it for our channels on Spotify and some of the sub channels across all podcast players, but not the main channel.
We definitely did not choose to not link to it due to worries about audience engagement. It’s just because podcast players are astoundingly bad. Also our particular setup makes it challenging
I would love to see an index linking to initial text posts and to podcast link(s)!
As explanation, I listen to podcasts while commuting, and often numerous episodes of Nonlinear Library (NL) because they are so short. I sometimes want to engage further, by re-reading them, saving them in a reading manager, checking the author’s other work, or reading comments (or adding my own). It would be helpful to have somewhere that links to text posts.
If I remember correctly, NL made an intentional choice not to link from podcast episode descriptions to EA/LW/AF, in hopes of avoiding a deluge of engagement with posts, or communities as a whole, that do not uphold conversational and engagement norms that we so prize them for.
Should, or could, we request read-only links to posts?
might support sharing these posts more broadly beyond these communities, while minimizing the risk of unwelcome engagement (and supporting disclaimers to serve as an introduction to the community—”these posts are not endorsed,” or “this is a forum”).
Linking to the original post is the most requested feature! Unfortunately because of obscure technical reasons it’s quite difficult. We did to figure out a way to do it for our channels on Spotify and some of the sub channels across all podcast players, but not the main channel.
We definitely did not choose to not link to it due to worries about audience engagement. It’s just because podcast players are astoundingly bad. Also our particular setup makes it challenging