Hello Podders and happy new year. We have had a load of upgrades happening on the website and the feeds this year in order to streamline a few things for us, and keep up to date with the change of podcasting aggregators.
Let’s start with the Feeds. You may have noticed that our main feed no longer appears in video format. A number of podcasting sources no longer show videos, opting to only share audio. It made sense to us to drop the video from our feed and focus on an audio-only format. This way we don’t have to bang our head against coding to force the feed to work with other podcasting platforms, and it’ll be easier on updates for us in the long run.
You can still watch CosPod in video! All our HD videos are hosted on YouTube. We’ll continue to record in video for the foreseeable future.
With this switch to audio only, you may have experienced some disruptions to the feed in December. We apologize for the inconvenience! All episodes have been fully converted to audio-only and our feed is working on every platform…that we’re aware of. If you’re experiencing any playback issues, please let us know and provide the service/platform you are listening on so we can investigate.
This also means our entire Show Archive is in need of an update. We’re no longer hosting videos on our website and swapping the Archive over to the audio format. Since every season needed to be fixed, we’ve opted to give the Archive a new look! You’ll now find that each episode will include show notes, audio link, and a video link to watch. Season’s 10-13 are available and we are steadily working through the other seasons. We’ll re-post them when they are ready.
Next up, accessibility! We’ve got a cookie consent policy now alongside a privacy policy. And an accessibility button to change the colors and fonts for easier reading. We have a few more images to update on descriptions and alt tags, but we hope these new features will be beneficial.
As you can see, loads of changes happened in the past month! We are still working through the audio/video conversion updates and hope to make noticeable progress soon.