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I have a lot of patreon feeds that I get my main podcasts from. These are manually added RSS feeds, and they show up and work (mostly, ref https://github.com/podverse/podverse-rn/issues/929) like regular feeds in the app. They aren't, however, synced, and thus I can't do handy things like adding them to a queue or playlist from the web version. I'd love to be able to do that.

I realize the reasoning for the sync is to avoid storing private data. But I'd like to be able to opt into doing it anyway. None of the feed URLs contain user account information, nor do they grant access to anything other than the feed itself. Thus the consequence of a leak would be minimal to nonexistant, and I could probably just get patreon to rotate the keys for my feeds.

This is one along with https://github.com/podverse/podverse-rn/issues/929 are some of our highest priority issues...I'm thinking we'll have them done by mid-April.

@zerodogg sorry I never added this :( it's still unclear to me how we will support this. The only way to add private RSS support in the browser is with server-side parsing (due to CORS restrictions), and that opens a whole host of concerns if we open that up to the public...

Maybe server-side parsing would be unnecessary if we get clever, and create some kind of browser extension that adds "advanced" or "enriched" features to the website? That begs the question of if anyone would actually use such a browser extension if we created one...or maybe instead of a browser extension, we can port the whole website into a desktop app? I think we could side-step CORS restrictions if we do that. There's a lot to think about there...but we'd definitely like to support private RSS feeds on desktop somehow.

The main use-case for me is getting this to sync. Right now private RSS feeds are a sort of second-class citizen, even in the mobile app (and it's what keeps me from renewing a subscription, since most of my podcasts these days are patreon rss feeds, significantly reducing the usefulness of a sub).

If it synced I could convert the data from antennapod to podverse, and bring the "listened" status of all of my older podcasts over.

@zerodogg I'd love to add this. It's only been a lack of time, and the fact we have had more immediate issues to deal with Podverse on Android.

Do you have ideas for how to bring "listened" status of older podcasts over to another app? My understanding is there is not a spec that exists or at least that any app follows that would allow exporting listening history data. This is another thing I'd love to see and would make Podverse to support such an export and import, but I'm not aware of one existing. That said...that is a separate feature request than this issue, so maybe we should create a feature request to discuss it further.