gpodder.net is a libre web service that allows you to manage your podcast subscriptions and discover new content. If you use multiple devices, you can synchronize subscriptions and your listening progress.
It works best with the gPodder application, but you can also use it with Amarok, other supported clients or as standalone web application without any client app.
Features
- Share your favorite content with others
- Keep track of your playback progress
- Back up your subscriptions
- Discover new content, based on your listening habits
- Create and share lists of related podcasts
- For publishers: Find out which parts of your content are popular
2025-02-08 Annoucement
Dear gpodder.net users,
we now have a total of 146k accounts, which is an amazing number. Thank you for joining us on this platform! But of these 146k accounts, only 2500 logged-in last month, 7000 logged-in in the past 12 months: not that many active users after all!
This message is to inform you that we will likely purge inactive (no login since 2024-01-01) user data from our database
To my knowledge this is the first purge since 2009. We have to do it in order to restore good performance for active users. Indeed the system has struggled with an ever-increasing database for years now. More than 300GB database on spinning disks is too much. We also keep album artwork for long-gone podcasts, up to 70GB. This has to go.
Based on first simulations, we would reclaim more than 80% of the database, going down to 50GB. This would encourage our hoster to migrate us to newer hardware, with even more performance gains. By the way, a huge thank you to our hoster: tornadovps.com, who provided us with 2 VMs with significant resources free of charge for years. We really appreciate their support.
So, what will happen to long-inactive user data? We will produce a downloadable export of everything they have sent to gpodder.net:
- the list of their current subscriptions, in OPML format, to be able to easily re-import them in their podcatcher of choice;
- a json export of their profile, all subscribed podcasts, all episodes, every history entry ((un)subscribe, download, play, delete, ...), tags, favorite episodes, etc..
This archive will be available for download from their user profile. It will be kept for as long as it's reasonable, at least for another year. Any other action on gpodder.net will be unavailable. There is currently no way to re-activate an archived account but we could think of something if necessary (open an issue).
The export code is available for review on github. Please give feedback if you find missing data. It's our intent to give back any bit of data we can find on our system.
We also would like to engage with you on the future of gpodder.net: please bring your feedback on this issue. In particular, should it be a more stripped-down syncing engine or is the web experience crucial?
Thank you for reading this, and for your continued use of the podcasting ecosystem!