Oscar Merry

@nprofile…td70 quick question on the API - this feed displays only 4 episodes - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/310504
But the API returns many more - which I think are old ones that are no longer in the feed.
Is there some hidden 'deleted' field that you have in the database but not returned in the API response - if so would it be possible to add this to the API response? (/episodes/byfeedid)

2026-02-27 13:56:46 CET

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@nprofile…sk9g can you please share the link for the show / episode you are seeing this error with?

2026-02-24 22:32:04 CET

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@nprofile…zv63
yeah something like this could definitely work - the only downside is that for people self-hosting they would have to host the service that does this
for example - if you self-host your feed and use Strike to receive boosts and streams - this wouldn't work
my thinking with the current rss::payment spec was that even though it's a bit more of a lift for apps - it works with any wallet

2026-02-24 22:23:16 CET

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@nprofile…zv63
we could - there's just the question of how to avoid fake data if anyone can post payment metadata to a public API endpoint
with the rss::payment spec the url to fetch the metadata originates in the payment comment - so there is a direct tie to the actual payment and since apps host the full metadata on a url their reputation is at stake if they fake data
I am open to exploring solutions to this where apps don't have to host the payment urls - and promise I won't mention nostr 😅

2026-02-24 22:17:40 CET

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@nprofile…zv63 yep - we fetch it from the 'x-rss-payment' header that is returned in the URL - https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/examples/value/metadata.md#implementation

2026-02-24 22:13:24 CET

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@nprofile…zv63
If an app implements the rss::payment metadata spec like Fountain and Castamatic do it works:
https://podcastindex.social/@merryoscar/116120033419028522

2026-02-24 22:08:21 CET

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@nprofile…zv63
Personally I would rather trust metadata hosted by an app than metadata sent to an open API in the feed - but happy to look at any proposals people have and try and work together to solve this for apps that don't want to host payment metadata.

2026-02-24 22:07:50 CET

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@nprofile…zv63
Fountain does this for our hosting customers - we accept payments from any app - either Keysend or Lightning Address - and aggregate payment stats and metadata in our dashboard - https://fountain.fm/podcasters
This is why I have been advocating for the rss::payment metadata spec because it's simple to implement and we can read the metadata from the x-rss-payment header and use this for our stats.

2026-02-24 20:18:14 CET

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@nprofile…lm4c
Congrats Franco - great to see the NWC + BoostBox metadata integrations!
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/127/212/933/222/291/original/dbb588faf87beadb.jpg

2026-02-23 10:56:33 CET

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@nprofile…w0mx thank you! 🙏

2026-02-23 09:55:04 CET

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@nprofile…w0mx
"Theoretically, though, this does mean that the same HLS feed should work if you were to put it into an alternateEnclosure for other podcast apps, and should also work just fine on Android or other devices. There’s nothing proprietary here - just a carefully constructed HLS master playlist. And that’s good news for all of us."
Great to hear!
At Fountain we have many podcasters publishing HLS video with every episode. @nprofile…w0mx any thoughts on the best way to contact Apple?

2026-02-22 15:51:52 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc
This boostbox server follows the rss::payment metadata spec exactly - https://github.com/noblepayne/boostbox
so if you're using that everything should line up - it's just that many of the guids are optional so you just need to make sure you're adding as many as possible

2026-02-22 14:48:07 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc is there a reason this metadata does not include the feed_guid?
https://boostbox.cloud/boost/01KHY044DQE27T5MEQ7J6GJCBV
Ideally we have both feed_guid and item_guid to be 100% sure we are matching and applying support stats to the right episode.

2026-02-20 19:34:59 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc thanks I've found the issue - give me a bit more time to add a fix and I'll follow up soon and you can test again - shouldn't be too long I just always need to be careful when changing payment logic

2026-02-20 19:11:56 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc sorry I meant the reference id from the receiving fountain wallet (first screenshot)

2026-02-20 18:47:27 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc can you send me the reference id and I can check why this is not displaying as a boost in the fountain wallet

2026-02-20 16:07:04 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc yes I think defaulting to lnurl is a good idea

2026-02-19 10:12:13 CET

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@nprofile…w0mx
Totally agree James - this <metaBoost> spec has been around since 2024 and no-one has implemented it because it's overly complex.
The rss::payment metadata spec is simple and we have 2 apps that have implemented and 2 more that are working on it.
We need to all align on this if we want to re-energise open podcast payments.

2026-02-02 14:31:14 CET

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@nprofile…kdmg @nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…cn7u
@nprofile…kdmg I know it's probably annoying but would it be a massive amount of work for you guys to switch to the same spec Fountain and Castamatic are using?
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/pull/734
I think we would really turn a corner if we could all align here!

2026-02-02 11:30:04 CET

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@nprofile…w0mx I've enabled CORS for these payment urls - let me know if that works for you

2026-01-29 09:48:17 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc thanks Chad - will reach out to them and get this sorted

2026-01-20 17:04:53 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc @nprofile…zv67 @nprofile…05ue
I would suggest leaving the feed as medium="music" and the video in the alternate enclosure - we can add support for music videos this way

2026-01-20 15:38:16 CET

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@nprofile…05ue @nprofile…x5pc
Yes we only support alternate enclosure video for podcasts - not music.
I don't think alternate enclosure should be used for external platform links - shouldn't we use <podcast:contentLink> for that?
https://podcasting2.org/docs/podcast-namespace/tags/content-link

2026-01-20 15:34:01 CET

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@nprofile…x5pc @nprofile…05ue
We don't currently support alternate enclosure for music feeds - this is something we will look into adding.

2026-01-11 12:24:35 CET

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@nprofile…vfcp aah yes you're right we were only submitting the album feeds not the publisher feed - I've done that now and it's all working - https://alpha.podverse.fm/artist/zp7I1ZDtz9

2026-01-09 16:19:34 CET

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also fyi @nprofile…vfcp I tried searching for these guys on the new podverse web alpha - found their album feeds - but then I couldn't find a way to get to their artist page - not sure if that's still in the works but thought I'd let you know

2026-01-09 16:05:02 CET

New French Symphonic Metal band Hartlight now available on Fountain and any supporting Podcasting 2.0 music player.
Check out their music and give them a welcome boost!
https://fountain.fm/artist/BHQT3YDR59zGumqz9RVO
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7648720

2025-12-31 12:07:51 CET

FYI @nprofile…wsp3 we are seeing LNURL payment failures to the main No Agenda Show split: [email protected]
{
"status": "ERROR",
"reason": "Invalid amount, minimum is 100 and maximum is 16000000"
}
What's strange is the other strike lnaddress splits are all working despite them having lower splits:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Maybe caused by a setting in Strike? Is your "Receive currency" set to Bitcoin in settings? Maybe the minimum only applies when receiving USD?

2025-12-30 16:57:49 CET

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@nprofile…l26x @nprofile…4vsz
yeah there is definitely a trade-off between keeping full split records + amount of data - ultimately if streaming payments per minute with splits grows 1000x in volume we might have to figure something else out - but for now I think this approach best preserves all the data we had in the keysend TLVs

2025-12-30 16:51:18 CET

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@nprofile…l26x @nprofile…4vsz
currently we create a different payment record for each split - but link them with a "group" id which is also in the metadata

2025-12-21 00:03:29 CET

If anyone here listens to podcasts mostly in the car - we would love some help testing our new CarPlay / AndroidAuto experience that’s now available in beta with Fountain 1.4.4.
The new Fountain experience in the car much better than previous versions - but we really need help testing it before general release.
Beta links are available in our telegram group - https://t.me/+ZMnGthLREYQ3N2Rk
Please do jump in and give it a quick test in the car if you have a spare 5 mins this weekend! 🙏

2025-12-17 11:52:57 CET

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@nprofile…5yxp thanks for the report - this is fixed

2025-12-15 19:12:31 CET

@nprofile…dzgg
Is there a way to generate pod.link episode links via some kind of url param or API?

2025-12-15 10:54:25 CET

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@nprofile…kdkm great to hear! thanks again for the bug report!

2025-12-14 15:42:40 CET

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@nprofile…kdkm we have a new version 1.4.1 which is now live - although we weren't able to replicate the issue - we've made an update to the layout logic this screen which we believe will fix the issue - can you let me know if you're still experiencing it on 1.4.1?

2025-12-13 14:23:00 CET

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@nprofile…kdkm
Thanks for the bug report - I'm just testing now on an iPhone16 simulator and I can't seem to replicate this.
Is it a regular iPhone16 or Plus / Pro / Pro Max?

2025-12-12 19:01:37 CET

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@nprofile…wsn5
no not currently - we only support incoming NWC connections - so you can use an external wallet in Fountain
we hope this showcases to other podcast apps that NWC is a great option for letting users choose what wallet they want to use

2025-12-12 18:38:34 CET

Fountain 1.4 is now live, and we've completely redesigned the Fountain wallet, made UX improvements to payments across the app and added some highly-requested features:
💜 Nostr Wallet Connect
⚡️ Pay Lightning Address
⬆️ Withdraw to Strike
💳 Choose Payment Method
https://x.com/fountain_app/status/1999529230527316390
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqst57g7829mur9phklus5zd7gffy8f49h6m5s3l4sy668qvm2sgyscgpkpvs
https://blog.fountain.fm/p/1-4

2025-12-12 14:47:46 CET

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@nprofile…5yxp
This is fixed now - for both the above feed and for future new releases updating publisher feeds.
Thanks for reporting the issue!

2025-12-12 14:28:00 CET

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@nprofile…5yxp
Thanks Chad - this looks like a bug - will fix today and report back

2025-11-19 15:26:38 CET

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@nprofile…5yxp publisher feeds have a guid - and adding these tags allows you to query all the nostr events related to a specific artist

2025-11-14 14:39:59 CET

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@nprofile…5yxp aah ok interesting - so there's no way to paste in an invoice from clipboard?

2025-11-14 14:13:04 CET

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@nprofile…sxxr @nprofile…y5nd @nprofile…wsp3 @nprofile…9ap7
It looks like the lnaddress for this episode item split is invalid:
podcastindex.getalby.com
should be [email protected] rather than a . between handle and domain

2025-11-13 11:54:54 CET

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@nprofile…5yxp cool! let me know if you see this option in the UI and get a chance to test (I'm sure UK will be a bit behind)

2025-11-13 11:54:07 CET

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@nprofile…9ap7 @nprofile…25h2 we don't unfortunately - we discontinued Fountain Radio - the infrastructure was slightly messy - hoping to re-build in the future!

2025-11-07 19:09:29 CET

FYI guys going to be away for the next hour or so - but please do keep posting questions / comments as I really want to continue this discussion so we can all come to an agreement!

2025-11-07 19:08:02 CET

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@nprofile…xefh @nprofile…vwpk yes you could do this easily

2025-11-07 19:06:32 CET

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@nprofile…vwpk @nprofile…xefh
you could have a relay that only a certain set of app pubkeys could publish to

2025-11-07 18:48:24 CET

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@nprofile…vwpk
I think Podcasters fit into 2 categories:
- those that will never get into the tech layer themselves - they will use a service like Fountain / Alby / their hosting company - and these companies will handle indexing podcast related nostr notes from all relays (this is what we do)
- those that are self-hosting / interested in the tech - and they would be able to figure out how to query multiple relays - and put an additional tag in their feed signposting which relay to use

2025-11-07 18:27:19 CET

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@nprofile…vwpk this could easily be added to the feed:
<podcast:nostr npub="..." relays="...">
But in reality right now because it's early we can just pick a set of relays that we all agree to publish to. The events can always be re-synced to other relays later.

2025-11-07 18:15:12 CET

Also - what's funny about all of this is that nostr literally solves every problem that has been brought up because there are no servers required and it has built in signing of events. It also has the added benefit of cross-app comments, likes, replies etc.
The community here has clearly rejected nostr which is why I have proposed this alternative.
But if you want to take a look at my previous proposal it is here - https://primal.net/merryoscar/open-podcast-payments-with-bitcoin-and-nostr

2025-11-07 18:04:53 CET

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@nprofile…vwpk @nprofile…5yxp @nprofile…9ap7 @nprofile…l26x
Clickable is a nice to have but you're right does not matter in the long term.
The important part of this is that any receiving wallet if they choose to can parse the full payment metadata with only the text in the description field.
For something like Alby Hub - it will be much easier for them to parse this data from the BOLT11 description as opposed to setting up a dedicated HTTP server to receive from podcast apps.

2025-11-07 16:31:20 CET

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@nprofile…vwpk @nprofile…l26x
Also if the API is in the feed - how do you validate that the payment actually happened?
The good thing about the app generating these URLs is that they know at the time of sending that the payment actually happened.
Fountain / others could still create an API for apps to use - but they would need to have an API key that is trusted.

2025-11-07 16:05:04 CET

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@nprofile…vwpk @nprofile…l26x
Because this approach is just a prefix + URL - really anyone can provide the URL to the sending app.
Podcasters can choose which wallet they want to use to receive - and wallets can programatically parse the metadata and store a copy of it.
So there are multiple options:
- app could store metadata and serve url
- sending wallet service api could provide url for app to use

2025-11-07 15:51:24 CET

I know my previous nostr-based payment metadata solution didn't really get adoption from other PC20 apps - so me and @nprofile…q064 have come up with a much simpler solution for LNAddress payment metadata:
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/pull/734
TLDR - we use the BOLT11 invoice description field to add a rss::payment prefix along with a URL that returns the full metadata in a x-rss-payment header.
From today all LNAddress payments sent from Fountain will use this metadata approach - so feel free to start testing!

2025-11-05 09:59:53 CET

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@nprofile…sxxr @nprofile…nxqw yes

2025-11-04 19:47:03 CET

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@nprofile…sxxr yes - any fountain lightning address

2025-10-30 12:50:00 CET

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@nprofile…ge5x @nprofile…l26x @nprofile…2q02 @nprofile…r5z7 @nprofile…wy29
ok great thanks - I'll look into updating our playback error handling to give a contextual error message
this is the example glenn beck show on pocketcasts - https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-glenn-beck-podcast/0b49bf90-b88c-0138-e6e2-0acc26574db2
(doesn't play in brave)

2025-10-30 12:34:27 CET

Is anyone else seeing episode audio issues with ART19 / ARTTRK hosted shows when using ad blockers / VPN?
For example this one - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/2434774
- doesn't play on podcastindex with brave
- doesn't play on pocketcasts with ad-blocker enabled
- doesn't play in fountain with ad-blocker enabled
cc @nprofile…l26x @nprofile…2q02 @nprofile…ge5x @nprofile…r5z7

2025-10-22 10:50:40 CEST

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@nprofile…5yxp
They are based on the Fountain account Lightning Address - this user hasn't changed theirs which is why it's still the default - I'll reach out to them and ask 👍

2025-10-14 14:12:13 CEST

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@nprofile…fhrz great video!

2025-10-09 21:57:00 CEST

Fountain 1.3.5 is live on iOS & Android 📲
⚙️ Change font size across the app
🎶 Improved music collection playback
🪪 Profile follow lists
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsyw9y7v824uj70qsln4sp6jlm7dqmkj0vx7ulenjl5tukeng583jcw4sc9n

2025-10-08 17:54:27 CEST

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@nprofile…6746
not publicly no - but internally we can based on the custom value and I can maybe give you a csv if you send me all the address / customValue you want to lookup?

2025-10-06 18:55:54 CEST

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@nprofile…6746
since the zap receipts are signed - you can choose to trust the signer e.g. fountain pubkey or your app pubkey
if your app signs zap receipts we can trust by default - then if anyone notices fake zaps - you lose trust - same for other apps that publish receipts this way
note this is a short term approach until keysend is gone - long term if every lnaddress split publishes there own receipts you can embed multiple receipts in a note - which is cool because splits can be displayed

2025-10-06 18:24:58 CEST

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@nprofile…6746
yes you can - technically you can create a zap receipt without the lightning invoice + preimage
what we do is create one for all the splits combined
one thing to note - I would advise doing this server side so that the pubkey that is signing the zap receipt can be "trusted" to not sign fake receipts

2025-10-06 12:43:06 CEST

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@nprofile…6746 nice!!
I think the final step is to add an embedded zap receipt into the note - then we can parse it and show the satoshi amount natively.

2025-10-03 20:41:10 CEST

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@nprofile…vu32 yes we support music hosting - more info here - https://fountain.fm/artists

2025-10-03 20:23:11 CEST

New Track from Suzanne Santo:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqszjxw7rlgxtrx8hqgejedetm65cnfrgrk0dxzxev6e90y6g2qd7qskzf8wc
https://fountain.fm/track/mZ8ci07BjsjT5XriuZCv

2025-10-03 20:11:06 CEST

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@nprofile…pvn3 @nprofile…n7gm yes - we are using lnaddress by default for all feeds - but still have the option to add keysend splits - although it's under advanced settings

2025-10-03 20:02:26 CEST

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@nprofile…n7gm @nprofile…pvn3 Fountain fully supports lnaddress

2025-10-03 09:43:56 CEST

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@nprofile…6746 yes we are - here's an example - https://feeds.fountain.fm/NjTmcKvDEj4DJvN2Hbpq

2025-10-02 19:55:59 CEST

We published an article on music distribution via RSS:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs8ww0c0j65a6u4chep8dynmedc9vc6qe6zx092g27h4smz8afttcg5r8ycx
Please share / let me know if any feedback on how we've tried to explain things in a non-technical way!

2025-09-12 17:11:08 CEST

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@nprofile…hata
can you let me know your fountain user id and I'll check our error logs to see what went wrong?

2025-09-11 18:43:25 CEST

I've written an article / guide on how Fountain publishes podcast payment metadata using nostr - https://primal.net/merryoscar/open-podcast-payments-with-bitcoin-and-nostr
I know not everyone's sold on nostr - but this approach is working today and allows podcast payments to display in other nostr clients (see example in the article) - there's no reason we can't have the same interop between podcast apps.
I know @nprofile…6746 and @nprofile…pvn3 are experimenting which is great to see.
I'm also working on a JS library with sample code - will share soon.

2025-09-08 18:08:42 CEST

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@nprofile…pvn3 @nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…j90y
the only metadata we use is this:
- amount - stored in the kind 9735 zap receipt (so it can be parsed by other clients like primal) - https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsg04a4cdnj3562cla082yt0p9hwydt67h3ev0xkz8xj3rrpxsgdacg66leg
- message - stored in the kind 1 note comment field
- podcast feed + item guids - stored in the NIP-73 i tags (with url hints that provide image / title etc from the open graph meta)
the sending profile is inherent to the protocol - can be loaded from kind 0 metadata - can be a throwaway with just a name

2025-09-08 18:02:19 CEST

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@nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…pvn3 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…j90y
For apps that want to use this approach - it's very easy and only requires modifying the LNURL payment request slightly to include a zap request - doing this does not require you to add nostr profiles - this is optional.
Most Lightning Address wallets support zap receipts (Fountain, Alby, Strike, Coinos) etc - so you get the verification built in.

2025-09-08 17:56:16 CEST

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@nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…pvn3 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…j90y
- the kind 30090 generic payment solution was just an idea and we are not currently using it - mainly because no-one else was interested in it
- what fountain is using in production today is nostr kind 9735 zap receipts for payments, and kind 1 notes for comments / replies
- we use nostr NIP-73 i tags with podcast feed + episode guids so that anyone can query events for any feed / item - you can try this on our relay with kind 1 / 9735

2025-08-15 18:19:32 CEST

Fountain 1.3 is live on iOS & Android 📲
Our latest update makes it easier to discover podcasts and music worth supporting - in the app and on web.
❤️ Likes
🏡 New Home Tab
🔍 Improved Search
🔨 Nostr Infrastructure Upgrades
https://blog.fountain.fm/p/1-3
https://x.com/fountain_app/status/1956385243126263858
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvlk3w7hzrmn05m85n2efjehxayyum3eezkxmt5h7jn9qy0xtcrdghpkkr9

2025-08-15 13:22:55 CEST

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@nprofile…vu32 aah ok got it that makes sense - I've unlocked for you and will think through how we can add an option to manually expire / cancel a pending invoice

2025-08-15 13:13:40 CEST

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@nprofile…vu32 seems to be unlocked now - might have been because of a pending deposit / withdrawal?

2025-08-04 18:02:17 CEST

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@nprofile…h82d @nprofile…22yh @nprofile…n7gm amazing thanks Dave!

2025-08-04 10:26:33 CEST

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@nprofile…n7gm @nprofile…h82d @nprofile…22yh great thanks guys!

2025-08-02 21:09:06 CEST

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@nprofile…22yh @nprofile…n7gm @nprofile…h82d yes we can build a workaround for this in our new episode syncing - give me a bit of time and I'll make sure this gets done.

2025-08-02 10:45:52 CEST

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@nprofile…v2ca what app version are you using?

2025-07-26 13:08:22 CEST

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@nprofile…vu32 we have a big new version coming in the next two weeks - I'll make sure we get it into that version

2025-07-26 10:01:14 CEST

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@nprofile…zn42 we had a small race condition with bonus episode purchasing that could happen occasionally if the bonus episode preview audio was already loaded in the small player before purchasing. Fix is already live in the latest version 1.2.14

2025-07-07 13:02:20 CEST

Fountain 1.2.8 is live on iOS and Android 🚀
The update includes:
- Player design refresh
- Video playback
- AirPlay and Chromecast support
- Auto-queue on play
- Other bug fixes and improvements
Read more: http://blog.fountain.fm/p/1-2-8

2025-06-17 19:03:29 CEST

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@nprofile…3ram @nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…h82d @nprofile…j90y congrats sam!

2025-06-04 18:18:08 CEST

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@nprofile…5pjr yep we will be supporting mp4 in both the regular enclosure and alternate

2025-06-04 13:19:56 CEST

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@nprofile…5pjr Fountain is working on HLS video playback via alternate enclosure - we should have a beta build ready next week if you want to give it a spin with a test feed?

2025-06-02 19:21:25 CEST

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@nprofile…vu32 can you send me an email [email protected] and I can investigate this further for you

2025-06-02 19:11:36 CEST

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@nprofile…vu32 @nprofile…zrjl @nprofile…mj3l should be good now

2025-06-02 10:15:02 CEST

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@nprofile…7xwn @nprofile…r3p6 the "nevent1..." event id encoding includes a relay hint which tells you which relay the event can be found at - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/19.md

2025-05-27 18:29:09 CEST

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@nprofile…6746 @nprofile…7xwn @nprofile…s2q5 ok great to hear 👍
I'll definitely post here as soon as we make the final decision and update all the feeds.

2025-05-23 21:51:55 CEST

LIVE now in the Fountain app - tune in for some live music!
Open Fountain > Check the Home Screen for the stream.
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0s89v0ztgkleqzvh6p00yx9slrly394eemhslsl5ujdjgwlv0udcxwp2tw

2025-05-16 20:39:05 CEST

https://feeds.fountain.fm/ADaivzvrcS1cwzXvhYIa

2025-05-16 17:33:13 CEST

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@nprofile…ywdy @nprofile…r3p6 done