Google Podcasts

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google Podcasts, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Commenter says the app was horrible and they barely used it2024-04-02
Commenter finds the Google Podcasts interface more intuitive than the native iOS app2023-09-26
Tiny pause, replay and skip buttons sit side by side, so users often skip when they meant to pause2023-09-26
Feed URLs are encoded and must be extracted and decoded manually, which is tedious2022-07-18
Navigating to a podcast is strange and the interface feels clunky2020-02-13
Can't subscribe to podcasts unless web and YouTube activity tracking is enabled2019-10-17
Can't subscribe to podcasts unless web activity history is enabled2019-10-17
Lacks a basic 'mark as listened' function, and the UX is hard to use2019-03-28