Template talk:Ep/PodcastSwitcher

About the podcast URLs
The template is now fully working and the  fields in Infobox Episode have been changed from raw strings to call this template in the format. All podcast URLs are now grouped together in Module:Ep/PodcastSwitcher/URLs. For the fields which had been blank, I've attempted to populate them using the priority 1) critrole.com blogpost links, 2) libsyn links (for the old G&S podcast feed) and 3) simplecast links (for the current CR feed). Any ones that are still blank I can't find; this is mostly one-shots and bits and bobs episodes.

Given that Critical Role switched feeds, it's a given that (unlike e.g. YouTube links) we cannot have one standard way of linking to all the episodes. But we have a hodgepodge of direct links to download audio files, as well as individual and episode list blog posts, other pages where a player is embedded, plus some direct links to podbean files that seem to now be behind some kind of authentication and/or paywall. What are people's preferences for how we want podcast links to behave? We at one point changed the VOD links so that they weren't linking to blog posts anymore and to YouTube directly, but podcasts maybe warrant a different method. Curious to know what other folks think so that we could get them more standardized in whatever direction folks prefer. ElSeiver (talk) 05:01, February 9, 2023 (UTC)