Some podcasts have reddit boards, some are mainly discussed on Twitter, some run Slack Channels, some publish on Youtube and use its live commentary in the chat

Some podcasts have reddit boards, some are mainly discussed on Twitter, some run Slack Channels, some publish on Youtube and use its live commentary in the chat - most use a mix of these. I appreciate this is a bit like the "we have 14 competing standards" XKCD, but there's a deeper, underlying problem that Podbabble tries to tackle: The majority of podcast discussion is either too general (i.e. debating the hashtag of a show as opposed to a specific episode), ephemeral (i.e. Twitter or live chat where discussion only happens within a few hours of episode release) and its almost always distributed (some on Reddit, some here, some there.) Podcasting - albeit still comparatively tiny) is the fastest growing medium and I am confident that having a central, purpose built place for listener engagement will add value to the ecosystem.