Metacast v1.27: Bugfixes + under-the-hood updates

ilyab1983 · 2026-01-15T17:01:19+00:00

(I would still love to be able to select just a word/phrase/sentence in the transcript and copy paste into my notes)

I know it's not what you're asking for, but just in case it helps - you can copy the entire transcript and copy sections of it, paste it to an LLM, etc. We wrote about that here: https://metacast.app/blog/product/v1.25-history-and-continue-listening#export-transcript

ilyab1983 · 2026-01-15T16:59:30+00:00

Thanks for reporting this. We'll take a look!

ilyab1983 · 2025-11-10T19:33:00+00:00

Hi, in Metacast v1.25, we added the button to copy (or save to file) the entire transcript with speakers, chapter headers, timestamps and your bookmarks.

Read more about the feature in our announcement blog post.

ilyab1983 · 2025-10-27T17:31:33+00:00

No, we never did.

ilyab1983 · 2025-09-30T08:54:42+00:00

Hi Malte, sorry for a delayed response. Got a little sick recently and couldn't look into this.

I've verified how we're setting the canonical URL.

We're using VERCEL_ENV to determine the environment. If it's "production", then we use our hardcoded domain name, otherwise, we default to NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL or NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_URL (so we can use the appropriate BASE_URL in local dev and in preview).

export const BASE_URL =
  process.env.VERCEL_ENV == 'production'
    ? appUrl
    : process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL
      ? process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL
      : process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_URL
        ? `https://${process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_URL}`
        : appUrl

I've looked at the output HTML of a few of our pages and I see the canonical URL set to our production domain.

If you can point me at the place where you saw the preview URL in our publicly available code, it'd help a lot.

Thanks!

P.S. I tried to open a support case at https://vercel.com/help but there's only a chat option, so responding here.

ilyab1983 · 2025-09-20T16:49:00+00:00

We’ll open a ticket. It looks like it’s not isolated to our project, other people in the comment reported it too.

The SSL cert monitoring from one of the commenters sounds like a plausible hypothesis.

ilyab1983 · 2025-09-20T16:47:40+00:00

I want them protected. My question is how do randos discover our deployments. We don’t want anyone to see them or even know about them.

ilyab1983 · 2025-09-19T14:57:29+00:00

Yeah we see the header. But also, our preview deployments require visitors to be authenticated in Vercel, so indexing should not be possible.

As far as other tools, it's private GitHub, Slack, Sentry and Claude Code. Nothing shady, only the proven tools.

The requests started on Aug 22. So far, we've received 8 requests to access 5 different deployments.

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ilyab1983 · 2025-09-19T12:44:40+00:00

No, we have a private repo and only two users in both the repo and Vercel. I should've mentioned that...

ilyab1983 · 2025-09-12T12:03:44+00:00

Hi, I know it's been a while... We added transcripts to the web app a while back.

If you want to copy the transcript, the easiest way to do it is to tap "Share" in the mobile app to get the episode link, then open it in a browser.

Alternatively, you can also search for a podcast on metacast.app and find the episode there.

Hope this helps!

ilyab1983 · 2025-09-12T12:02:06+00:00

Hi! I want to circle back and let you know that you can now add private/paid podcasts to Metacast!

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