Oscar Merry

Building Fountain - the nostr powered podcast app

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2026-01-06 18:27:58 UTC

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Very excited to join @nprofile…vkh5 this weekend for the very first Sunday Brunch edition of @nprofile…9mtm.
Come and chill with us as we play open music over open protocols - and hang out in the chat for a laid back discussion.
If you can't make the livestream on Sunday - follow @nprofile…9mtm in your favourite podcast app to hear the recording a few days later.
https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9
#nevent1q…msax

2026-01-05 15:58:11 UTC

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hmmm - @nprofile…x58v any idea why the OG tags for this episode link were not rendered? https://www.opengraph.xyz/url/https%3A%2F%2Ffountain.fm%2Fepisode%2F4z03X1qn8Hbl266lYmnV

2026-01-05 14:51:40 UTC

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@nprofile…wfhh we do support this - which client are you viewing this note on? Episode OG image looks good to me on Primal

2025-12-30 14:03:55 UTC

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Aah ok yes clearing the local cache worked 👍

2025-12-30 10:59:22 UTC

@nprofile…uvay we are seeing something weird where different people see different versions of Fountain the site - for example when I visit the site I see an old version 1.4.0 - but others see the latest version 1.4.4 - and others see multiple versions.
Any idea why this might be happening?

2025-12-25 16:07:02 UTC

Merry Christmas Nostr! 🎄

2025-12-24 20:55:37 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet_Treasure_Island

2025-12-23 18:46:51 UTC

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We support NWC now!
#nevent1q…w2s0

2025-12-23 16:12:30 UTC

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Fountain in the Car 🚗 🎄👇
#nevent1q…jm0r

2025-12-22 14:50:42 UTC

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great to hear - we don't have search on iOS CarPlay right now - but coming soon

2025-12-21 17:52:05 UTC

🚘 🎙️ If anyone 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 is much better than previous versions - but we really need help testing it before general release.
TestFlight / APK 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 today / tomorrow! 🙏

2025-12-19 18:19:09 UTC

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Aah ok yes I see what you mean - we should display the active timesplits in the splits modal not default - I’ll update this for the next version!

2025-12-19 17:08:27 UTC

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What other improvements would you like to see in your Fountain library?
#nevent1q…tjq8

2025-12-19 14:58:19 UTC

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done - let me know your feedback on how this works and if there are any other improvements you think we could make:
#nevent1q…tjq8

2025-12-19 14:41:31 UTC

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@nprofile…uveq quick update on this - version 1.4.2 is now live with the option to view shows in your library as a grid view - and tapping on a show in your library takes you straight to the filtered episode list - making it quicker to find saved episodes for one of your shows and filter based on download, starred, or custom filter tag.
We're still exploring moving the queue to a separate tab - it's a bigger change so requires more thought.
Anyway let me know what you think of this new shows layout and if you have any additional feedback.
#nevent1q…tjq8

2025-12-17 10:44:27 UTC

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Sorry yes this is a bug with the current version 1.4.1 where the active item position was not always passed into the boost payment request. Fix has been implemented and new version 1.4.2 should be live in the next 24 hours pending app store approvals.
Are The Retrograde on nostr?

2025-12-15 18:16:17 UTC

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Aah yes I see what you mean and that this is annoying - what if we went straight to the episodes list if you tapped on a show from your library?

2025-12-15 18:14:01 UTC

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Thank you for the detailed feedback - really appreciate it.
On Episode Sorting - although the default sort is "Latest episodes" - it's actually sorted by date added - so if you manually add an episode the is older it will go to the top. We're going to work on adding more sort options.
On premium signup not working - what device / os are you using?
On show page tile option - just to confirm do you mean viewing your list of shows as a grid of images without text?
On queue as main tab - we are exploring this - hopefully can share more soon.
On pod link as default link shares - if podlink expose the podcast guids somehow which I think they might - then we could do this and still have the shares display in our feeds.
Let me know if you think of anything else.

2025-12-13 13:25:19 UTC

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Thanks for reporting this - we have fixed the issue which was isolated to setting custom amounts on subscriptions - a new version 1.4.1 should be live in the next 24 hours with the fix

2025-12-12 19:11:38 UTC

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Let me know how you get on!

2025-12-12 19:07:33 UTC

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great to hear on NWC working well - on the Amber issue - we'll do some testing on account switching with Amber and I'll follow up as soon as I have more info
in the meantime if you email me [email protected] with your userid I can maybe just delete the nostr account connection and you can re-connect?

2025-12-12 18:59:43 UTC

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Bring your favourite NWC wallet to Fountain - and support the podcasts and music you love.
As always - please share any feedback you have about the Fountain app and how we can make the listening experience better.
#nevent1q…s8j4

2025-12-12 18:29:44 UTC

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We don't support regular deposit / withdraw with NWC - but you can support podcasts and music and zap people with your NWC wallet.
Is there a particular reason you would want to deposit / withdraw to your NWC wallet balance but using the Fountain app?

2025-12-05 19:40:38 UTC

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Thank you! 🙏
Please let us know if you have any feedback / ideas for how we can improve!

2025-12-05 19:37:53 UTC

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Yes we have this feature but currently it’s behind a beta flag - @nprofile…yqeh I’ll enable it for you and send over some info on how it works!

2025-12-03 19:19:48 UTC

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It looked like a relay timeout so maybe just a one-off error

2025-12-03 19:00:14 UTC

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@nprofile…p7gd @nprofile…zeyv @nprofile…zarj @nprofile…7xed @nprofile…y6dn @nprofile…69n6 @nprofile…w3cr @nprofile…39aq @nprofile…t5s9 @nprofile…pgmr @nprofile…ux3h @nprofile…aamz @nprofile…lay4 @nprofile…ufrd @nprofile…vug7 @nprofile…m52l @nprofile…te6f @nprofile…z0nh @nprofile…ur5w @nprofile…gs3w @nprofile…0wrk
Thank you all for the replies - we now have a new NWC beta build ready to test.
If you want to help test with your NWC wallet - can you please email me [email protected] saying iOS or Android and I'll send you the beta!

2025-12-01 13:53:17 UTC

Do you use Nostr Wallet Connect? If so - which wallet?
We are adding NWC support to Fountain - and I want to test as many wallets as possible - what do people use?
POLL - https://stacker.news/items/1297245

2025-11-28 13:23:06 UTC

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Can confirm working now 👍

2025-11-28 11:13:34 UTC

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Great episode full of Bitcoin history
https://fountain.fm/episode/qUbCkyc3YcIxCC9lAv2V
#nevent1q…dwc0

2025-11-28 10:54:17 UTC

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@nprofile…8m4j the enclosure url doesn't seem to work for this episode - https://op3.dev/e/blossom.primal.net/8449ca01f31e6c69dcd0c2b28b182c2aa7d475c4827f40435954fc3e6021cf84

2025-11-25 18:04:47 UTC

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Thoughts on adding built in nostr keypair management to avoid needing to install an extension?

2025-11-19 14:45:04 UTC

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Hi Nicole!
Oscar here from Fountain - you can see all of the details about the hosting product here - https://fountain.fm/podcasters
Happy to answer any questions you have!

2025-11-05 16:48:20 UTC

W E N N W C O N F O U N T A I N S O O N
N E E D B E T A T E S T E R S R E P L Y B E L O W

2025-11-05 07:56:39 UTC

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If you just update rather than uninstall / reinstall you shouldn't lose any downloaded episodes

2025-11-04 17:16:40 UTC

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Are you on the latest version 1.3.10?
We've noticed over the last few weeks some podcast dynamic ad services have started adding large numbers of http redirects to episode audio urls (sometime's as many as 10...)
In 1.3.10 we increased the redirect limit which I believe should have resolved this issue.
Let me know if 1.3.10 resolves things for you.

2025-10-31 15:59:32 UTC

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congrats!

2025-10-31 11:40:37 UTC

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What version of the app are you using + iOS or Android?

2025-10-27 14:12:21 UTC

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RSS has powered open podcasting for over 20 years - but has fallen behind centralised platforms when it comes to social + monetisation.
We built Fountain for Podcasters to bring RSS into the future - combining Podcasting 2.0 tags, Nostr, and Bitcoin Lightning to power direct fan support and social features that work in any podcast app.
#nevent1q…ptud

2025-10-24 11:37:23 UTC

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If you've been using the app for a while this could be from an older version that used a different cache directory.
If you delete the app and re-install it should clear out - you won't lose your library but episodes will lose their downloaded status.

2025-10-21 12:27:30 UTC

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yep still not resolved for me

2025-10-21 12:25:38 UTC

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Sorry about this - AWS had an outage yesterday which caused an issue with some of our APIs - all the funds were sent and the boost is now listed on the episode page - https://fountain.fm/episode/1u8wjH1BYqfMJ7RVK0JP
Unfortunately it's not a nostr note though as we fallback to these internal boosts if the signer is not available.

2025-10-14 20:48:22 UTC

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Very interesting discussion on the dynamics of prediction markets / polymarket - hadn’t heard this perspective before.
https://fountain.fm/episode/wBbQtQ3lzIy4FEq4UC4h
#nevent1q…8x6p

2025-10-12 17:30:49 UTC

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ok nice - will take a look at the playlist kinds you're using

2025-10-12 14:46:34 UTC

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@nprofile…8m4j how are you structuring the likes?
In Fountain we use NIP-25 external content reactions to reference the RSS guids - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/25.md#external-content-reactions

2025-10-11 08:02:18 UTC

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Yes! Please let me know if you have any feedback on the video playback experience

2025-10-03 18:21:55 UTC

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This should be resolved on iOS in the current version 1.3.4 - if you go to settings > storage you can view and clear the cache data - let me know if that works?

2025-10-03 18:08:25 UTC

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When was the last time you used the iOS version? We've added many performance improvements over the last couple of months so if you try it again you should find it much snappier!

2025-10-03 18:06:58 UTC

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There is a bug on Android where the library cache cleanup is not using the correct directory on some devices - we've fixed this for the next version 1.3.5 which should be live some time next week. I'll follow up when it's live!

2025-10-03 08:43:53 UTC

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Can you confirm what version of the app you are using?

2025-10-02 17:10:47 UTC

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that link works for me - are you still seeing an error?

2025-10-02 16:39:44 UTC

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Welcome to Fountain!
https://fountain.fm/track/DZX9MLHKtQVHm3jgxHE8
#nevent1q…t2ud

2025-10-02 12:36:37 UTC

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Looking into this - seems to be intermittent - will report back

2025-09-30 17:10:27 UTC

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@nprofile…qgdn want to try adding nostr podcast likes to one of your apps?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/25.md#external-content-reactions
It's pretty simple - just a like button and signing a kind 17 with the podcast guid tags.
These likes do what you describe - follow you from app to app - and tied back to the rss feed via the guids.

2025-09-29 23:58:02 UTC

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Should be working now

2025-09-29 23:52:34 UTC

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Welcome to Nostr @nprofile…wvge!
Can't wait to hear the new track dropping this week - give Suzanne a big welcome below!👇
#nevent1q…g3v9

2025-09-26 17:58:03 UTC

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seems to work for me - which nip05 were you having issues validating?

2025-09-26 17:38:13 UTC

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cool

2025-09-23 09:37:58 UTC

https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/@devlinktips/apple-is-quietly-rewriting-ios-and-its-not-in-swift-or-objective-c-4af4dc578775

2025-09-22 21:23:17 UTC

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Yep thanks!

2025-09-22 10:57:19 UTC

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Really enjoyed your talk!

2025-09-22 07:20:43 UTC

@nprofile…p6dz my notifications have been really slow for the past week and often never load - any chance you could take a look?

2025-09-17 15:43:37 UTC

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should be fixed now - thanks for the report

2025-09-17 15:27:48 UTC

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sorry about this - should be fixed now and accessible via the link above

2025-09-15 11:53:24 UTC

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yeah really enjoyed this one

2025-09-12 18:00:23 UTC

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looks like your wallet was locked - it should work now - let me know if not

2025-09-10 09:12:41 UTC

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@nprofile…ntsn Version 1.3.2 is now live which contains the fix for this - thanks again for the report 🫡

2025-09-07 22:07:01 UTC

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Yes sorry this is a bug. Already fixed for next release which should be live in the next 48 hours. Will let you know when it’s live.

2025-09-05 09:54:00 UTC

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fixed now sorry about that

2025-09-05 09:53:34 UTC

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what goes wrong when you try to boost / comment?

2025-09-05 09:53:04 UTC

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@nprofile…3r9v this is fixed now - some tracks were not boostable if you loaded them from the new home feed - let me know if it's working for you now.

2025-09-04 21:47:46 UTC

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@nprofile…8m4j it looks like there were multiple episodes over time in the rss feed with different item guids - currently when these disappear from the feed we don't automatically delete them in fountain.
I've just manually deleted them - so there's only one episode now. If you keep each item guid the same this shouldn't happen going forward.
https://fountain.fm/show/aq7IaS6bdQ6kF6NWDzzc

2025-09-04 15:55:57 UTC

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Hi - we are not sending any data to facebook and do not use any facebook sdks in the app - after doing some investigation the only thing we can think of is that one of the urls shared in your feed had some facebook tracking in the link preview (we render these in the feed).
We will continue to investigate this and proxy the link previews for feed items if this is the source.
I'll follow up once this is done.

2025-09-04 07:37:38 UTC

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if you go to settings > storage in the app you should be able to clear out any storage that might come from image cache / old downloads etc
if that doesn't work please let me know

2025-08-28 16:44:14 UTC

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Can you send me an email [email protected] with the show link and I’ll check this for you

2025-08-28 16:43:29 UTC

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will add

2025-08-28 16:35:35 UTC

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🙏 tag me anytime if you think of improvements!

2025-08-28 16:26:58 UTC

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If you listen to @nprofile…3u7f and have tried @nprofile…t3f3 and there’s something you didn’t like about the experience compared to Spotify - please let me know in the replies and we’ll work on improving things for you.
#nevent1q…fmcy

2025-08-28 04:32:37 UTC

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Congrats!!

2025-08-26 15:12:59 UTC

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I think the feed marketplace is great for advanced users - but for the majority that just open their main nostr client occasionally it should just be there by default - just like @nprofile…nj96 did at Twitter

2025-08-26 15:10:34 UTC

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DVMs are a great spec - but unless they are implemented with simple UX in your main client feed then it’s quite hard to learn they exist

2025-08-26 15:07:56 UTC

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Oh nice - will check it out!

2025-08-26 15:07:18 UTC

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Yeah could definitely be in a different section to main chronological feed - or include it conditionally based on when you last opened the app.

2025-08-26 15:02:32 UTC

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@nprofile…cqzq @nprofile…mzsu @nprofile…dgvg @nprofile…ze9g @nprofile…n3f8
Has anyone implemented this?
A simple catch up section to the main feed would make the nostr experience so much better.
#nevent1q…uxjs

2025-08-26 14:56:31 UTC

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queued up ✅

2025-08-15 17:21:30 UTC

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Read here:
#naddr1qv…sae8

2025-08-15 16:54:44 UTC

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Fountain 1.3 is now live!
This is a VERY big update which we think you're going to love - so please take a second to read the post below, see what's new, and leave a comment with your feedback as I'd love to hear it 🙏
❤️ Likes
🏡 New Home Tab
🔍 Improved Search
🔨 Nostr Infrastructure Upgrades
In particular I'm very excited about the new episode likes - powered by nostr I think these have a chance to become the standard in open podcasting. Try searching for my profile in the Fountain app and you'll see my recent episode likes - let me know if you've listened to any of them!
#nevent1q…cezz

2025-08-14 15:35:14 UTC

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Very sorry about this issue. This is fixed for the next version 1.3 which should be live in the next 48 hours.

2025-08-06 20:49:54 UTC

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Yeah definitely - I haven’t spent too much time looking at the various groups / community nips - but it would be cook to join a community around a show or a set of shows - or even a topic!

2025-08-06 17:51:14 UTC

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Great episode
https://fountain.fm/episode/m6UcXvzhdcfQ6rDeGjI8
#nevent1q…ywdv

2025-08-01 17:24:54 UTC

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I will make sure we get this prioritised

2025-08-01 12:39:03 UTC

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we have a new version coming next week with a complete rebuild of all of the nostr social features including the feed - stay tuned for a big improvement!

2025-07-30 11:46:07 UTC

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Thanks - we should have a hotfix build out in the next ~24hours with some fixes to video playback

2025-07-28 09:22:52 UTC

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It looks like this was resolved - might have been that your wallet was temporarily locked from a pending transaction?

2025-07-18 09:56:40 UTC

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we have a fix for this which should be live in the next 24hrs

2025-07-17 17:24:42 UTC

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Looking forward to listening to this

2025-07-15 10:01:17 UTC

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Fountain Link - https://fountain.fm/show/2haWaxyUrTo9Ms9g95eo
@nprofile…205k send me an email [email protected] if you want help setting up lightning payments for the show!

2025-07-11 12:30:57 UTC

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Really sorry you're experiencing these issues!
Can you please confirm if you're using the latest version 1.2.8?
Also would you mind sending an email to [email protected] with your fountain user id, iPhone model, and headphone make, and I can investigate if there are any specific errors being thrown?
I'll make sure that we get this resolved for you.

2025-07-07 14:25:23 UTC

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Fountain 1.2.8 is now live - lots of improvements including long-requested casting support.
Thank you to everyone who continues to send in feedback - tag me anytime here with ideas!
#nevent1q…vw22

2025-07-07 08:19:51 UTC

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Can you send an email to [email protected] and we can investigate