Oscar Merry

merryoscar@podcastindex.social

Building Fountain - <a href="https://www.fountain.fm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.fountain.fm</a>

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Post #1774653
Hi All, Fountain is hosting a live event next Thursday April 30th in London showcasing how Open RSS can support music hosting, music podcasts, and payment splitting for the currently playing artist. You can sign up to be notified when the stream goes live here - https://fountain.fm/live And if you&#39;re in London can grab a ticket here - https://luma.com/ysna282n Please share with anyone you think might be interested and hopefully you can join for the livestream! :)
Post #1734247
Fountain 1.5 is now live with a brand new trending feed showcasing which episodes your network find valuable. The new trending feed combines different signals to rank notes including boost value, reactions, and recency. We’ve also re-written the backend so feed queries along with comments, threads, and profiles now load faster. I’d love to hear your feedback on the new trending feed - especially if you think we could give more weight to certain things. https://fountain.fm/blog/fountain-15---...
Post #1291786
@dave quick question on the API - this feed displays only 4 episodes - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/310504 But the API returns many more - which I think are old ones that are no longer in the feed. Is there some hidden &#39;deleted&#39; field that you have in the database but not returned in the API response - if so would it be possible to add this to the API response? (/episodes/byfeedid)
Post #1291784
All lightning payments on Fountain will be temporarily down between 13:00 - 17:00 UTC today while we perform some maintenance work. Apologies for any disruption. We will let you know when the work has been completed. https://x.com/fountain_app/status/2033876690363928903
Post #1291783
@dave have you noticed any issues with the index over the past few days - have had a few reports of feeds not updating. A couple of examples: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/869672 https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1000839
Post #994236
We&#39;ve been working on a re-design for the Fountain app over the past month - and I&#39;m looking for a couple of people who would be interested in testing and giving some feedback on the new design - ideally you already use Fountain or have used it previously but switched away because you didn&#39;t like the design. Please let me know if you&#39;re interested in helping out!
Post #994224
I&#39;ve written an article / guide on how Fountain publishes podcast payment metadata using nostr - https://primal.net/merryoscar/open-podcast-payments-with-bitcoin-and-nostr I know not everyone&#39;s sold on nostr - but this approach is working today and allows podcast payments to display in other nostr clients (see example in the article) - there&#39;s no reason we can&#39;t have the same interop between podcast apps. I know @ChadF and @ericpp are experimenting which is grea...
Post #994220
I know my previous nostr-based payment metadata solution didn&#39;t really get adoption from other PC20 apps - so me and @dovydas have come up with a much simpler solution for LNAddress payment metadata: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/pull/734 TLDR - we use the BOLT11 invoice description field to add a rss::payment prefix along with a URL that returns the full metadata in a x-rss-payment header. From today all LNAddress payments sent from Fountain will use this meta...