Improve the Drag and Drop functionality
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Hey,
first. I really like Pocket Casts. Best podcatcher on Android I found.
But the possibility to sort manually the podcasts has much potential to be improved.
- The speed is horrible. When I add a new podcast and want to sort it near the top. The speed is really hard to see, where I am. You have improved this on the “up next” list. The speed is now perfect (for me).
The problem really is in two parts.
a) Sometimes the podcast is not moved when I drop it because the position seems not to be right.
b) by any reason when it works. Sometimes my existing order does not exist any more. It is not only that some podcasts are behind where they should be. No they are at a completely different Place. Is the order A – B – C – D it can be the after the new G moved the order ist now G – D – C – A – B. It is completely wrong. There is no possibility just to turn back the last changes or something.
This is really bad. This should be fixed. - Podcast should have the possibility to give them a TAG. Then it would be possible that they are grouped by their tags and manually sort is just within one tag nescessary.
- A kind of diving line would help to structure long lists. As the list is long to scroll it would be great to have the possibility to add any kind of separator before one podcast. (it could be an alternative to point 2)
- It should be possible to hide inactive podcasts as commented here: https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/inactive-podcast/
Thank you very much. It would improve the usability in my mind a lot.
PS: As I just see. I use the gallery view. Maybe Drag and Drop ist better working on list view. But the possibility to have separators would be great.
- The speed is horrible. When I add a new podcast and want to sort it near the top. The speed is really hard to see, where I am. You have improved this on the “up next” list. The speed is now perfect (for me).
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I tried to move podcasts in the list view. This is horrible. The speed is too fast. I cannot really see, where to drop.
Improve like in the next up list.
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Hi @pandorra1975 – Thanks for your feedback here.
- I have passed on your feedback about scrolling speed.
- 1a) and 1b) Would you be able to share a screen recording to demonstrate this? I haven’t been able to reproduce it in testing.
- I’ve added your vote to our existing feature request about organizing podcasts by tag.
- I have passed on this suggestion.
- I already added your vote to our feature request there.
- I have passed on your feedback about scrolling speed.
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The drag and drop is really glitchy, it only works 1 out of 10 times
I have a screen record but there’s no option to upload it here
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@nicolalucas could you upload it to a service like Google Drive, iCloud, etc and share the shareable link here?
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Thanks for this! We’ve filed a bug report for it here: https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/3663
Feel free to add any additional context if needed. You can also follow that report for updates
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@staff-donnie, Perfect Record from @nicolalucas.
It looks nearly the same on my phone. It’s getting crazy sometimes. Not everytime.
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Hi @pandorra1975, thanks for chiming in!
This issue has already been reported to our development team here: https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/3663
You’re very welcome to add your experience to that bug report—you’re able to upload screen recordings there.
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