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The main problem is giving out the anchor.fm domain for your RSS feed, as it marries you to Anchor forever. In theory, you can get anchor to 301 redirect your s
by mtlynch 5y ago
The main problem is giving out the anchor.fm domain for your RSS feed, as it marries you to Anchor forever. In theory, you can get anchor to 301 redirect your subscribers somewhere else, but I've found that podcast clients tend to keep the old URL.
You can use Anchor to generate your RSS feed and host your content while still sharing the RSS URL on a domain you own. So you'd give out a URL like feeds.deepdreams.com/rss, and it would proxy the response from Anchor's RSS feed
I wrote a simple Go cloud function that can proxy your Anchor RSS URL for you:
https://github.com/mtlynch/rss-proxy https://github.com/mtlynch/rss-proxy
- stavros 5y agoHm, yeah, I should at least whip up something like that. Getting the domain is easy, I just don't want to have to set up another static site or service just to proxy a file... Maybe I should bite the bullet and set up GitLab pages plus a simple script to output an RSS feed.
- stavros 5y agoI ended up setting GitLab pages to just curl the XML feed every time I publish, so now it's at https://deepdreams.stavros.io/feed.xml https://deepdreams.stavros.io/feed.xml. Thanks for the help!
- mtlynch 5y agoNice! Glad it was helpful. It's one of those things that's hard to do after you've got a bunch of subscribers, so I'm always glad if I can warn people early in their podcast against getting stuck with their host.
- stavros 5y agoOh definitely agreed, I aim to always own my stuff, but this was so quick and dirty that I figured it doesn't matter enough. Still, since it was this easy to do, better safe than sorry!
- gumby 5y agoBTW you might want to ask dang to change the link in the submission too!
- stavros 5y agoThe link should be okay, I don't have another website, just the feed is hosted elsewhere (and it's linked in the target page).
- keyb0ardninja 5y agoJust listened to one of the episodes. Sounds decent. I personally think it would sound a lot better if you slowed down the speed a little bit. 0.75x sounded much better to me.
- stavros 5y agoIt depends on which one you heard, there are 3 different voices there.
- stavros 5y agoI have rehosted!: https://deepdreams.stavros.io/ https://deepdreams.stavros.io/ dang, if you see this, could you repoint the URL to the article? Thanks!