Users want a way to have a 'sticky' episode that always appears at the top of their RSS feed, allowing them to link to sponsors or important information without cluttering notifications.
I want to get ahead of it and state that nothing is for sale in this post, however I am looking for others interested in this RSS hack to have something like a 1-link-in-bio with a "pinned" entry that always appears at the top of your RSS feed. So, as a podcaster myself over the years, I have always wondered about the lack of ability to interact with an audience better and manipulate my RSS feed. I also always felt that besides the episode description and overall <description> tag there must be a way to collect my sponsors into one place for my audience to easily find, i can link to my patreon or merch, or whatever. After digging through RSS, lots of trial and error, and some luck, we came up with a way to have a "sticky" episode that is always at the top of your feed and does not keep appearing as a notification in a pod-player. It works across providers, and is, in general, pretty useful as a permanent starting point for new listeners (or for old ones to check in, find a sponsor code, or whatever else you might want). If you want to check it out I will leave a comment or DM me and I can send you the link to sign up to be a beta tester. Otherwise I would just ask, what would you use a sticky episode for? Note to the mods, if this breaks the promo post feel free to let me know and I can just post this again in the Wednesday thread (just let me know so I can copy it) Without links I figured it would be okay, and the fact that it's a totally new thing that doesn't do transcriptions or involve AI.