Display old icons and theme colors instead of 4 thumbnails for each playlist.

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    cebeaugraphiste · Member ·

    I’ve been a user for more than 10 years now and never really complained about Pocket Casts. In fact, I’ve always recommended it to all of my friends.

    However, this new UI overhaul doesn’t work at all. Especially, the playlists list. The fact that it’s just showing 4 random tiny podcast covers does not help me quickly find the playlist that I am looking for. On the contrary, since the same podcasts can be in many playlists it can be repetitive and confusing. Also, why does it say smart playlist on every playlist? It doesn’t add any value. It is just making the title of the playlist way too small, which should be the most important information. The margins are too wide. The backgrounds grey color while I have the darkest theme set is way too light.

    Please add an option to revert to icons instead of thumbnails or revert to the previous UI.

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    npaladin2000 · Member ·

    i have to agree. I didn’t move calling them smart playlists or whatever, but the collage takes up way to much space better used for the actual playlist or a summary of the playlist rules.

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    npaladin2000 · Member ·

    And my autocorrect substituted “move” for “mind” before I noticed, heh

  • staff-eleanor · Staff ·

    Thank you for sharing your feedback on the new design!

    Regarding the label “smart playlist”, that is to differentiate between the Smart Playlists that use the Smart Rules, and the Manual Playlists where you can add individual episodes from podcasts you follow and those you don’t.

    We’ve heard from other users who have similar thoughts about the header area within Playlists and Smart Playlists. The artwork is meant to be dynamic and changes based on the podcasts included in the playlist.

    I’ve forwarded your feedback along to our development team alongside those we’ve received from other users so it can be taken into consideration as we refine the design going forward.

    Please let us know if you have any other questions or comments at all, we’re always here to help.

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    fidog · Member ·

    Please offer an option to remove this icon view.

    I am a little confused as to how this was implemented in the first place. More than 50% of the screen has been given up to something which I cannot for the life of me figure out the purpose. I now see 2 maybe 3 of the podcasts in any of my playlist as opposed to 7.

    What was the reasoning?

  • staff-eleanor · Staff ·

    Hi there, @fidog! The collage of podcast artwork (cover art or logo) of four random podcasts in the playlist is meant to show a preview of what is in a specific list. The artwork is dynamic and changes based on which podcasts are in the list.

    Thanks for your feedback about the design of the playlists! I have shared this with the team as well.

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    steveholstein · Member ·

    YES. The collage of podcast cover art at the top is annoying. Please give us the option to make it go away.

  • staff-eleanor · Staff ·

    Hi there, @steveholstein! Thanks for your input here. I’ve added your vote to this feature request too.

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    chrismartin76 · Member ·

    Yes I would also suggest removing the four thumbnail images. They push the playlist down which means I cannot immediately visually scan a bunch of recent episodes. I used to be able to do that.

  • mikerockwell · Staff ·

    @chrismartin76 thank you for sharing your feedback on this! I’ve forwarded it along to our team!

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