🎙 Podcast Club [Now Listening: 4989 American Life]

[polv]

iirc, <a href="url" target="_blank">text</a> rather than [text](url) will open link a in new tab.

Otherwise, it’s always possible to right click (hold touch) a link to choose to open in a new tab.

[araigoshi]

My understanding of the problem (and I’m just passing through complaints I’ve recieved);

1. The touch target for the check boxes is too small
2. Also long titles wrap around to the next line, so it’s surrounded on three sides by links.
3. If you try to tap the checkbox, you have a high chance of tapping the link and being taken off the page (even if it opened in a new tab, I think most mobile browser focus the new tab, so this doesn’t fix the problem).

Instead what the users do for non link polls is tap the text of the option which will also toggle the checkbox. But if all the text is a link, then that option is removed.

[Akashelia]

@WeepingWeeb

• Are we fine having the book club-esque arrangement of the person who suggested something running the club? (If not or the person is unavailable I’m fine to do it, or do the first one at least if that’s preferable?)

Sounds good to me.

@WeepingWeeb

• “Each pick will run for 10 weeks regardless of how many episodes the podcast has”. I pulled this rule out of nowhere, does that seem reasonable or would people the number of weeks being higher or lower (still static), or prefer adjusting it on a case by case basis depending on the pick?

Sounds very good to me with 10 weeks fixed! Gives time to adjust to it, to ramp it up if it’s hard, and to see if we like it.

@WeepingWeeb

• And relevant to the previous question, assuming we did a static number of weeks for every pick e.g. 10 weeks for every podcast pick it would make sense for each week to have the same amount of time spent on it. Given the longest episode length of the picks is 1 hour, what time would we want to have per week? (e.g. if it was 30 mins per week the 1 hour episodes would be split in half, whereas say 25 minute episodes would probably stay at 25 since doing 5 minutes of a new ep would be weird)

Hard to say. I think one hour is the max it should be. So maybe ramp up period with 30 minutes the first weeks and see if people agree to push a bit more as it goes?

@WeepingWeeb

• And relevant to the previous question again, if we’re trying to get time spent as close as possible to the stated limit, what would be too far over or under it? (e.g. we want to listen for about 1 hour a week, but a podcast’s episodes are always 40 minutes, do we assign one episode per week so we don’t go over the 1 hour limit, or do we assign 2 episodes per week so we hit the minimum 1 hour?)

I would split the episodes and hit the mark, in your example that would be episode 1 + part 1 of episode 2.

Also I found it hard to vote for only 2 picks, but as we have only 6 nominations I guess it’s fair enough!

[mitrac]

@WeepingWeeb

Are we fine having the book club-esque arrangement of the person who suggested something running the club? (If not or the person is unavailable I’m fine to do it, or do the first one at least if that’s preferable?)

In general I agree but if 4989 wins I would be so grateful if you would run the first one as I’m feeling too swamped to set up a decent format. I will participate!

@Akashelia

Hard to say. I think one hour is the max it should be. So maybe ramp up period with 30 minutes the first weeks and see if people agree to push a bit more as it goes?

Agree! Since we’re not sure how everyone will settle in let’s be a bit conservative at first

From the votes it looks like there is an appetite for early intermediate plus level content so that’s interesting to consider for future nominations!

[Lisaveeta]

I already listen to 4989 American Life and so I’ve voted for it, but I’d be equally happy to go with a shorter, more beginner-listening level podcast. If we start beginner-listener friendly, we can grow the group from the ground up.

[araigoshi]

@WeepingWeeb

Voting will end in one week!

Don’t forget to add your vote back since it was deleted when you edited the poll by the way

[WeepingWeeb]

Aaaaand the results are in! Our first podcast will be 4989 American Life with a whopping voting percentage of 66%! Our highest percentage ever!!! Because its the first vote

I’ve set up the home thread and added a few points underneath. Since we don’t need to order anything for this club I figured the start date wouldn’t matter too much but if people want it pushed back lemme know (Set to start on Monday currently)

4989 American Life Home Thread

Welcome to the 4989 American Life Podcast Club! This club is part of the Podcast Club! [image] Introduction The 4989 American Life podcast is about the daily life of Utaco, a Japanese woman who moved to California with her Japanese husband. She talks about her daily life, travels, impressions of American life and comparisons with life in Japan. Details Estimated Level: Easier end of native Format & Episode Length: Monologue /…

@mitrac Since its your pick if you want to take over at any point after the first week just to copy my format for ease that’s completely fine! And if not that’s fine too I can keep running it

[mitrac]

I love the home thread, I’m so glad you set it up instead of me if you don’t mind running it that would be amazing, I’m definitely participating. I nominated Doraemon to the ABBC a year ago and now it’s finally gone and won, so it’s looking like I’m up for leading that

[WeepingWeeb]

Okay no problem