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Hi, David McVay (Host of The Geek Actually Podcast) here, just a quick note about our feeds and metrics. We need your help so I want to ask you a favour. I would like to streamline all the feeds so we can get some accurate metrics on the podcasts. Now I know we changed the feed a few months ago and I promised that was the last feed change, but then we got the whacky idea to start a second show (Platforms) and it has kinda screwed up all of our statistics gathering.
NOTE: If you download your podcasts through the iTunes store, do nothing, it has all been changed there automatically.
Okay, if you are still reading then you a) use a feed reader, other than iTunes, to get your podcasts and b) want to help us out.
We currently have a few feeds running on our site and they all work, however we only track show statistics on two of them, so let’s see if we can streamline this a bit. If you just used the general feed from the geekactually.com (feed://geekactually.com/feed/rss/) front page or you use the podcast feed (https://geekactually.com/feed/podcast/) they both work (and will go on working for the time being) and you have been getting both podcasts okay. However we don’t track the stats on these feeds.
The big favour we would ask of you, could you please change your podcast feeds to:
The Geek Actually Podcast – https://geekactually.com/category/podcast/feed/
The Platforms Podcast – https://geekactually.com/category/platforms/feed/
This change will not only let us track the podcasts better but gives us room to grow, we can add any number of new podcasts and the feeds won’t cross (so to speak).
Last thing, if you use a site to grab your podcasts other than iTunes or geekactually.com and they don’t have the new feed, drop me an email at info@geekactually.com and I will try to get it corrected.
