For the first instant I saw the page, I thought it was one of those spammy, ad-filled domain placeholder pages. It's because the design is similar - boxy, list of links, no images. I'm not sure if that first impression will actually drive people away, but you think it might, you should change the design a little to distinguish your site from those placeholder sites. Perhaps adding a podcast-related image or a large logo to the main page would work.
I was able to submit that episode by getting the RSS feed from the podcast's main page (http://castroller.com/Podcasts/BigIdeas) and submitting that directly.
I don't know if PodCastle is able to pick up the MP3 on the CastRoller episode page.
Might be worth noting that there's already a podcast called Podcastle, so that might present some naming issues - I was confused for the first few seconds.
Also, seconding what roryokane said, your design does not look good. It's bland, it's boring, and it looks a bit spammy.
Really loving some of the things happening in the "podcast" space lately (check http://said.fm/ for another approach). Does make me wonder why it's taken so long for these types of services to come to market though, I've been after decent way to discover interesting content outside of iTunes for years.
But was obviously not motivated enough to do anything about it myself :/
Working on ways around this. Reason for lag right now is that iPhone requires that play events come from a UI event rather than any arbitrary javascript function call. To get one-click play on the homepage, you have to load all 40 players on page load. The alternative is 2-click play. 1 click to load player, 1 click to play. Opted for 1-click and laggy over 2 click and snappy.
Ah, I see. I didn't even notice you could click once to play (the play icon should have been obvious to me). Honestly, I would always click through to the description anyway to see what's up, unless it was a podcast that I regularly listen to.
I listen to podcasts 2 hours a day on my drive to/from work. Looking forward to you expanding on the site, keyword searches, tags, descriptions would be nice
Isn't reddit primarily about the comments/community? I don't see a way of logging in/creating a throwaway account or commenting on the particular podcasts?
