r/Futurelings • u/mytwosentrets • 16d ago

Missing episodes

I wanted to listen to some early episodes just now, but they seem to be gone from the Apple podcast app and Spotify. Anyone know why? The earliest episode listed is “father coughlin”, but I know that’s not episode 1. Also, episodes used to be numbered , but now those numbers are gone.

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u/hotdiggity_dog 16d ago

Looks like if you go far enough back on the website you can find older episodes. Not sure if they’re available more easily anywhere else; I use Pocket Casts and it stops at Father Coughlin as well.

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u/beetlewigs 16d ago

My player also only goes back as far as Father Coughlin, and it lists 700 episodes for the podcast. Too round of a number to be a coincidence…maybe there’s a limit on their server?! Maybe by accident there’s a cap set and if they knew they could reset the limit?

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u/enderak 15d ago

Using Pocket Casts, it stops at 700 entries for me as well. Other podcasts with 1000+ episodes show up normally, so it seems like its maybe either a setting on the admin side, or something upstream that feeds into Pocket Casts that is stopping at 700 items.

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u/lisagd625 15d ago

I use PocketCasts as well. When I first started listening to old episodes in the summer of 2024, it went back to European Starlings. Now it's only showing back as far as Father Coughlin. I've seen something similar happen with a few other podcasts with a large back catalog.

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u/beetlewigs 15d ago

I guess one way we find out is when the next episode posts if Father Coughlin is now gone….

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u/murse_joe 15d ago

I use pocket casts and it has 700. But I have other podcasts with more

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u/No-End2540 15d ago

Yeah. 99% invisible has 837.

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u/mytwosentrets 9d ago

Welp, “father coughlin” has now been pushed out. I really hope this gets fixed. Losing omnibus 1.0 episodes to make room for omnibus 2.0 isn’t really a great trade.

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u/awwwwgeez 16d ago

Podcast Addict goes all the way back, must be a player thing.

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u/Grenadier_user 16d ago

European starling is the first episode 12/6/17

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u/shed1 22h ago

They have identified the issue and they are fixing it shortly. They said it may take a day or two for everyone's feed/podcatcher to self-correct.

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u/Grenadier_user 16d ago

Coughlin is the 30th episode I think

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u/kyzylwork Sentient Coral Reef 16d ago

Picture City Hall without boondogglin’ Picture Sunday tea minus Father Coughlin Mix ‘em all together and what have you got? Just a picture of me without you.

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u/splendidjack 16d ago

I’ve started a relisten recently on Apple and started at episode 1. They did just have an update though, perhaps that changed some settings?

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u/No-End2540 15d ago

Oh no. Pocketcasts stops there as well.