Why no links to the post in the episode notes? If I find a post interesting, I’m basically always going to want to be able to click through and read comments or vote on it so I need that.
I think there shouldn’t be a preamble before reading the title. It kinda destroys the usecase of listening to article titles and skipping to decide whether you want to hear it, it makes that take two or three times as long as it needs to as a result of forcing the listener to sit through the same intro again. I’d suggest… just reading the title right away, mentioning the origin, then saying in a different voice, “This audio reading was produced by the Nonlinear Library.” If this has to be here, it’s important for it to be as short as possible. It’d probably be better if it were at the end instead of the beginning. In the vast majority of listens it really doesn’t need to be there at all, given that all of your listeners will either know the origin before they start reading listening, or will listen to enough that they’ll have learned already.
Yeah, the links in the episode notes is the most requested feature. We have them in all of our channels except for the static playlists (such as the top of all time lists) and the main channel because of technical reasons. We’re working on the main channel, but it might take a bit because it’s surprisingly difficult. Kind of reminds me of this comic.
For the intros, at least on PocketCast you can set it to skip the first X seconds, which I recommend.
Any action on this? It still seems to me like the most crucial missing feature. Especially because I very often have only a moment in transit on my phone etc… and I want to either quickly leave a comment or skim through the comments.
I’m glad this exists.
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Why no links to the post in the episode notes? If I find a post interesting, I’m basically always going to want to be able to click through and read comments or vote on it so I need that.
I think there shouldn’t be a preamble before reading the title. It kinda destroys the usecase of listening to article titles and skipping to decide whether you want to hear it, it makes that take two or three times as long as it needs to as a result of forcing the listener to sit through the same intro again.
I’d suggest… just reading the title right away, mentioning the origin, then saying in a different voice, “This audio reading was produced by the Nonlinear Library.” If this has to be here, it’s important for it to be as short as possible. It’d probably be better if it were at the end instead of the beginning. In the vast majority of listens it really doesn’t need to be there at all, given that all of your listeners will either know the origin before they start reading listening, or will listen to enough that they’ll have learned already.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Yeah, the links in the episode notes is the most requested feature. We have them in all of our channels except for the static playlists (such as the top of all time lists) and the main channel because of technical reasons. We’re working on the main channel, but it might take a bit because it’s surprisingly difficult. Kind of reminds me of this comic.
For the intros, at least on PocketCast you can set it to skip the first X seconds, which I recommend.
Any action on this? It still seems to me like the most crucial missing feature. Especially because I very often have only a moment in transit on my phone etc… and I want to either quickly leave a comment or skim through the comments.
Agree