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Can you tell that Spotify is bragging about using AI for development? This is how the Creators page is (not) working for me today. What a mess, in general, with Spotify. I don't know if it's AI related or not: but I have told the relevant team this exacty feedback: please prioritize reliablity, or I am out from publishing on this platform. Reliablity only got worse, so I'm out. You'll be able to watch video episodes on YouTube, going forward, here: https://www.youtube.com/@pragmaticengineer Spotify will have audio, nothing else, and from a feed, not hosted on Spotify anymore. So much for Spotify's video podcast aspirations!
9:07 AM · Jul 16, 2026@GergelyOrosz Honestly the platform has gone WAY downhill since http://Anchor.fm was acquired by Spotify. I have to talk to their customer service to manually publish at least once a month
9:49 AM · Jul 16, 2026@GergelyOrosz brother how dare you! i will have you know they ship 4500 deploys/day to production
10:18 AM · Jul 16, 2026Outage #4 in two months. Spotify's processing messed up my episode audio. Listeners are furious. I have decided to stop publishing video podcasts on Spotify - I will now only publish the RSS feed, and audio-only podcasts. What happens when you don't care about reliability
8:57 AM · Jul 16, 2026View all
I moved off of Spotify; all future episodes here will be audio. The team just could not figure out how to process video without outages. I told them I'd move if there are no reliablity improvements. Then it got worse. So I moved. End of an era with video on Spotify.
9:15 AM · Jul 16, 2026The current state of Spotify's publisher's page (the Creators porta) for me. Comments stopped loading, everything stopped loading, links point to dead pages... a truly fascinating case study of a product falling apart
9:46 AM · Jul 16, 2026