Switched Podnews's podcast pages to use Apple Podcasts as the source of truth for RSS feed URLs - and to give a visible error where Podcast Index is showing a different RSS feed than Apple Podcasts.
I've seen some issues recently where PI was showing an older, out-of-date feed: hoping this fixes it, but also alerts us to how often this is an issue.
I'll be logging the errors too, so we can get some idea of how often it happens. Initial discovery: much more often than I thought.
https://podnews.net/podcast/i42qa is one - in this case, the feed URL in Podcast Index is a 302 redirect to the real one.
https://podnews.net/podcast/im1k0 is another - this time, two identical URLs leading to the same feed at two identical URLs (naughty naughty).
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James Cridland
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2025-11-19 00:35:26 UTC
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2025-11-19 00:35:26 UTCEvent JSON
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