[jpsouth]

Out of curiosity I tried to find the podcast in question on the Spotify iPhone app. Literally 3 taps and I’ve found a full list of episodes.

I’ve also tried on my Mac, slightly more presses (four, to be exact) as I had to press ‘podcasts & shows’ to refine the search slightly more.

I don’t see how that’s hard to use. Each to their own though I guess, I’ve not seen how difficult it is your side so can’t really comment.

[nebula8804]

Heres my anecdote: the app randomly craps out when playing a podcast. Seeking randomly breaks, it is not as "fluid" as Youtube, really struggles when there is a break in data coverage which makes usage while driving a car a massive pain when you need to be focusing on the road. There are other random quibbles but this is the jist of my experience. I am so glad I can finally dump this garbage now that Rogan is coming back to youtube. I can find other sources for my music but Rogan's occasional good podcasts forced me to install this junk in the first place.

Its amazing how so many apps really struggle at the edges. For a company as big as Spotify they should do better. Its probably a side effect of their company's culture.

[matwood]

I don't care for the Spotify UI in general.

For podcasts, I think people who are big into podcasts are also particular about their player. I know I am. For me, there's space for a music app and a podcast app. They are both audio, but otherwise very different.

[machomaster]

The biggest problem is not the difficulty of using, but the impossibility of using. The issue is not so much that features are difficult to find/access, but that the most basic of features don't exist anywhere at all.