Okay I'll admit, in the
past, every time I've tweaked the podcast RSS feed, I've created problems. This time though, it'll go perfectly. No issues at all. For anyone! EVER!
Briefly since the beginning, we've been using Feedburner to host and maintain the podcast RSS feed. That was a mistake.
Like so many other Google apps, Feedburner is one of those abandoned landscapes. It doesn't provide much of a service at all anymore, hasn't been updated in any way since 2016 (and hasn't been updated meaningfully since 2012), and has a lot of broken parts. It's Feedburner's own file size limit that forced me to put "For episode details, go here" to older episodes because Feedburner wouldn't allow files larger than 2M.
SO, just now in
iTunes Apple Podcasts, I've changed the canonical URL for the F Plus RSS feed to
https://thefpl.us/episode/feed, which I control. I can change around what happens with this page and don't need to consult a broken Google app to make it work.
What I'm hoping here is that the switch in Apple Podcasts will go off without any problems. If that seems to go well, then I'll delete Feedburner completely and make that URL redirect to the new URL.
So, if you get anything weird in your podcast feed over the next day or two, let me know. If not, hooray.
(also if you look at that URL in Firefox and see the escaped characters, I know. That's a Firefox bug and I filed a report with Mozilla about it)
