- 1d ago
David Bennett reported a bot attack caused Fountain's API to backlog Podcast Index with 500,000 polling requests, preventing his last two episodes from distributing and cratering his download numbers.
- 1d ago
Dave Jones blocked abusive traffic hitting the Podcast Index's unauthenticated PubNotify API after Fountain was pinged millions of times daily by a bot, creating a 500,000-podcast backlog in the aggregation queue.
- 1d ago
The Podcast Index infrastructure handled 9.2 million API requests and 322GB of data in 24 hours, and 75 million requests and 2TB of data over the last seven days.
- 1d ago
Dave Jones plans to create a second downloadable SQLite database of all Podcast Index feeds, including those marked dead with reason codes, to serve as a dataset for fine-tuning a future spam detection model.
- 1d ago
The Podcast Index's main database server is at 75% disk capacity, prompting a planned upgrade from a $192/month VM to a $384/month instance with double the RAM and storage.
- 1d ago
Dave Jones states the Podcast Index has no explicit content rules beyond keeping the platform free and open, arguing that blocking structurally abusive feeds is self-defense for the ecosystem, not censorship.