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Lee
Lee

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I love the Forem podcasts feature. Would love to see persistent progress tracking

What does everyone else think? Maybe it is just an iOS thing but if I listen to a bit of a Podcast, then stop, maybe not open the app for a day and go back I am usually logged out or I am just at the home screen again but all listening progress is lost.

I would sssssooooo live to have my podcast listing persistent regardless of where I am logging in from

Podcast listening progress tracking, server-side. #8218

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Nope!

Describe the solution you'd like

I would to ensure that whenever I am listening to a Podcast, on any device, I won't lose progress either when iOS tries to reclaim resources from an idle app or when switching between web and mobile. The podcast listening bar is always persistent when I login from any device.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Trying to memorize the progress so when it disappears on iOS, I can remember where I am up to again.

Additional context

I think this one feature is one of the final steps to this becoming a good Podcast replacement on mobile.

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Christina Gorton

Thanks for this feature request Lee. I brought it up with our Product team who liked the idea. We have moved your request to Forem’s Github Discussions where the community can better collaborate with our product and engineering teams. You can read more about the decision to use Github Discussions in this post.