I should have said that I'm not an avid podcast listener. I listen to a few and they have in common that the titles are catchy, and not just descriptive. I also watch a lot of videos that are considered podcasts, even though I don't consider videos as podcasts myself. I handpick the episodes I want to listen/watch however, I don't play them as they come.
Point is, titles and thumbnails matter. After reading the other replies, it even seems it's the main criticism regarding this podcast.
> They are bland but I can’t see how they could be any better
I clicked randomly on "uscreen Is a Platform That Helps Content Creators Build a Business"[1]. This title is awful, I stand by it. It doesn't carry anything interesting about the content and sounds like an ad, like all the other titles.
However, the "Topics Include" section contains something that caught my eye: "BREAKING NEWS: Rails can scale and it’s working out nicely for them as a monolith". "uscreen scaled a Rails monolith to xxx users per day", "Scaling a Rails monolith" or "Rails monoliths can scale" are titles I would have clicked on. And I don't even use Rails.
Point is, titles and thumbnails matter. After reading the other replies, it even seems it's the main criticism regarding this podcast.
> They are bland but I can’t see how they could be any better
I clicked randomly on "uscreen Is a Platform That Helps Content Creators Build a Business"[1]. This title is awful, I stand by it. It doesn't carry anything interesting about the content and sounds like an ad, like all the other titles.
However, the "Topics Include" section contains something that caught my eye: "BREAKING NEWS: Rails can scale and it’s working out nicely for them as a monolith". "uscreen scaled a Rails monolith to xxx users per day", "Scaling a Rails monolith" or "Rails monoliths can scale" are titles I would have clicked on. And I don't even use Rails.
No idea who Simon Cowell is BTW.
[1]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/104-uscreen-is-a-pla...