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    Are we sharing our art projects? I did this cool subversive art-as-a-living-being project a while ago that keeps surprising and impressing me. It's a historical list of actual internet speeds I get at my house, so that I can call Comcast out on it if it starts to be problematic. Some fun stuff you can do is see what the slowest speed is, or see what my internet speed was at an important time in your life. Anyway, check it out at this link! http://timsvlog.org/speeds.html

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    To clarify, the actual concept of a paid pro version that provides an appreciably superior experience (which Howl seems to strive for, and ought to get there one day) is something I fully support, especially if it helps to support the content creators and encourage smaller-listenership shows (I say that as someone who has donated way too much money to Hollywood Handbook).

     

    The things that confuse/upset me about this are:

    1) Breaking the old Earwolf experience (taking down old shows). Users who want to keep doing what they've been doing for free for years can no longer do that, and the explanation for why this is better for users makes no sense (more on that later). However, since I've already said that I would gladly pay for a subscription pro version, that shouldn't personally affect me, however...

     

    2) The new experience, though it could be better, is broken too (no Android support). While there are some additional new features/improvements to the advertised Howl experience (ad-free, more premium content), overall the current experience also features some major regressions. A complete lack of Android support and a lack of an ability to download (downloading in-app would be acceptable although not quite as ideal, but, again, completely broken on Android) show a misunderstanding of the user base or a lack of caring.

     

    3) Misleading/incomplete/unclear/dishonest explanation for why (1) had/has to happen. Explaining it away as a better new-user experience doesn't make sense. Scott, you yourself said *in this very thread* that you wanted to keep certain entire catalogs on Earwolf free specifically so that "as many people to listen to it as possible", which clearly contradicts the stated concept of "if we only allow recent episodes, more people will listen". I should mention that it's possible that you guys have done some research on this topic and come to the surprising conclusion, and if so then lots of my assumptions here would be unfair. However, with current information, the explanation appears wholly unsatisfactory.

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    Most of these questions are too specific for me (I don't know what a UX is), but I think the shows on HOWL are only for streaming, like Netflix or Hulu. It's an interesting idea for people who want to "own" things to put them up for sale on iTunes, maybe? Like TV shows are? It's something to think about.

     

    It's just that going from free and downloadable (and listenable on airplanes, trains, foreign countries, etc.) to paid and streaming-only is a very clear user experience (UX) regression. Usually product decisions consider "UX" to be one of the most significant concerns (right next to revenue) and specifically UX regression (let alone literal content regression for some users, e.g. Android users) is kind of a sin and loses significant user trust.

     

    Better transparency ("Scripps wants more revenue, and we think the best compromise between keeping a *decent* free user/new user experience, introducing a *better* paid-user experience, and meeting realistic business needs is this model where we take down old content" as opposed to "No, don't you get it, it's actually GOOD for you not to be able to get old content as easily or as freely as you could for the past five years!") might sound worse but honesty will at least regain some of the lost user trust/user confidence from taking content away.

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    1) Will old shows (RSS, ADP) be completely unavailable to free users?

    2) Will Howl Premium users be able to download un-DRMed episodes?

    3) Any specifics on Android? This seems to really really break the experience for Android users, and serves as a massive content regression

    4) Why couldn't the UX issue of "too much uncurated content" be solved purely through UX means instead of payments (i.e. for each show have some suggested first listens, or even put the "archived" episodes in a different section of Earwolf)? The monetization argument certainly makes sense for Scripps, but the "overwhelming amount of content" argument really seems like a lame attempt to tell users that it's actually good for us to have less access to content. "Too much uncurated content" and "users not paying us for this content" seem like purely orthogonal issues.

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    Happy Birthday, Sean!

     

    http://youtu.be/dAn3ylKpe7o

     

    Hey Sean, that's me in the video. I hope you like my part of the video I made for you, alone in my bathtub.

     

    For real though, Sean, you are one of the few comedians where I feel like I totally get everything you do, and your whole body of work has brought me so much happiness. You're also an incredibly nice guy, hanging out with fans and even letting fans on the show. That means so much to us.

     

    And Hayes, you're great, too.

     

    OK gonna stop embarrassing myself and do my "first timer Hollywood Handbook forumer" impression, world premier:

     

    I listneed to this episode and is scared me more than a Frankingstein, is that bad? Can't wait for Untitled Engineer Cody Boy Project to come out, hope my dad will let me out of my basingment aparkmunt to see it, if the movie theater isn't too scary.

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    COOL TURTLE FACT: Most people think turtles have no concept of race, but actually they are acutely aware of race issues. Really, they're just much too polite to start awkwardly talking about race in a very inappropriate context. The more you know!

     

    AGATA PLEASE REMOVE MY ACCIDENTAL DOUBLE POST

     

    EDIT2: AGATA NEVERMIND I HAVE 12 LIKES ON THIS POST NOW I WANT TO KEEP IT THANKS

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    Turtles are 120 million years old and the first tortoises are thought to have walked on land around 65 million years ago shortly after the mass extension of dinosaurs. Talk about good timing!

     

    WOAH! Wait 120 MILLION years old?! They must have taken to land because it was more cre-"spacious" (Cretaceous).

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  20. Posted

    Hey guys no joke Sean and Hayes are probably the nicest people of all time. Sorry I don't forum as much as I used to (or maybe that's a relief to you guys?) things just move so fast here now! I can't even keep up.

     

    BUT Sean and Hayes are incredible and the hardest thing I've ever had to do in life (well second hardest after having to stop hugging Hayes... Sean didn't let me hug him >:- ( ) was not ruining the recording by laughing really hard in the background.

     

    Also Val, Staz, and Adam are also super super awesome people and were cracking me up too.

     

    For real this makes me so happy and is for real a dream coming true.

     

    <3 Sean and Hayes.

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  21. Posted

    Always disappointed when it turns out people don't know the lyrics. One last time, everyone together now:

     

    The Popcorn Gallery it's

    Time for it it's the

    Popcorn Gallery it's a

    Segment on Hollywood Handbook

    Sean and Hayes letting the

    Viewers ask the questions not the

    Peanut Gallery 'cause it's about...

    Movies, yeah the

    Movies is the reason it's

    Called the Popcorn Gallery and

    Sean and Hayes letting the

    Viewers doing all the

    Questions, yeah and now it's

    Time for... the

    Popcorn Gallery, oh yeah!

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