I had to finally ditch Fountain and and Zapstore.
Neither work great.
Fountain has too many hiccups.
- It doesn't download automatically even when you set it to.
- It will often stall when opened and requires a force stop to start again.
- It won't play when connected to the car unless open my phone and start it.
- The speeds are all over the place, even if you set defaults.
- And, swtiching aways, I learned you cannot export an OPML. I'm pretty certain every podcast app I have used allows you to export. That's pretty devious in my opinion. An attempt to trap customer by making it difficult to exit.
So I'm back to Antennapod. Works great! I won't be able to zap but zapping isn't worth the hassle. If anyone from Fountain see this, my advice is to work on your core features of being a podcast app. That is a far higher priority than nostr and zaps. Those are bells and whistles. If the foundation won't hold, then the rest is eventually meaningless.
For Zapstore, I'm back to Obtainium. Zapstore just didn't update well enough. I would need to go and clear the cache every so often to get new updates. Not sure why but that was a bigger hassle than I wanted. I routinely see updates in Obtainium without problems.
I like the trust aspect that zapstore is trying to convey, but really, you are still just downloading from github. Whether greenart7c3 (nprofile…vdel) signs for Amber in Zapstore, or I just find their github account directly, doesn't make much difference, in my opinion.
Both are great projects but both just need more polishing. Maybe I'll give them another attempt if they keep at it and improving.
Jeremy Cady
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