This is why I've said that if I were starting from scratch today, I'd NEVER offer an episode-limit feature.
It's not that it's hard to delete the oldest episode when a new one comes in. That's trivial.
The hard part is meeting people's expectations.
Because when people say "Just keep the latest X episodes", what they really MEAN is a list of exceptions and behaviors that may be different from that… but everyone wants *different* behavior, because it's complicated!
https://mastodon.social/@overcastfm/113176856728462429
@marcoarment @overcastfm Have you considered renaming the feature to something like ‘Smart Autodelete’? You could have an aggressive/normal/off toggle with some different values in the logic. No longer has such a fixed expectation in the users mind as to how many episodes it keeps/deletes, so maybe removes some of the feeling that it isn’t doing what you expect. You could also have the world’s smallest ML model to determine if you should delete an episode and then you could say your app has AI!
