What Happened to the DTNS Video Podcast?
Added 2017-10-12 16:50:29 +0000 UTCThe DTNS video feed is not actually run by us, it's been maintained by a volunteer fan Shawn Wei for it's entire life which has been most fo the time since we launched in 2014. In all that time Shawn has done an amazing job keeping the feed up and running.
Tuesday we noticed that the feed was not updating and I mentioned it to Shawn on Twitter who promised to look into it. I followed up with him in an email yesterday. Shawn has a day job that was keeping him from getting right on it but he said it was an error in the script that creates the feed and he would get it fixed.
Our apologies for those of you who rely on this feed for the video version of the podcast. I've contacted Shawn again this morning and raised the idea of transferring the feed over to us so we can help fix things like this.
Shawn has been amazing and it's to his credit that most of you haven't even noticed this was a fan-run feed for so many years.
Apologies again for the disruption.
Tom
Comments
Someone screws up and you save them at the last minute. "We love you! Thank you thank you thank you!!! I promise to be better and do everything you recommend." *They continue to ignore your advice and do as before*
Harrihu Inkpen
2017-10-13 14:23:52 +0000 UTCShawn is awesome for being able to keep it going for as long as he did without issue. It's too bad that life interfered (life finds a way as the saying goes) but it's totally understandable. And as the other saying goes, keep calm and podcast on.
David Haga
2017-10-12 19:37:17 +0000 UTCAh, the life of an IT guy. Things are working..What are you paying you for!? Things ARE NOT working...WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR!? Props to Shawn for being the man behind the curtain.
Studio Pro
2017-10-12 18:03:17 +0000 UTCI'll send you a link to it, what's your email? (I should know this)
Kristinn Gudnason
2017-10-12 17:12:32 +0000 UTCWould it make downloadable videos out of them?
Daily Tech News Show
2017-10-12 17:11:29 +0000 UTCIf you're interested in taking this over yourself without having to do much work, I have a PHP file that will talk to the Google API and create an RSS feed from your YouTube playlist. After setup it should require no maintenance since it uses the public APIs. In fact, anybody can run it.
Kristinn Gudnason
2017-10-12 17:08:27 +0000 UTCHuge props to Shawn for handling all of this on his own for so long and doing so voluntarily. Thanks Shawn!
Ram Rangaswamy
2017-10-12 17:06:03 +0000 UTC
