Email reminder when episode publication date passes and episode is not public

[mfessler]

Would it be possible to (optionally) have Fireside email the account holder if the publication date passes on a podcast episode, and the episode is still private or unlisted?

I bet you can guess why I'm requesting this.

[OneJaeAtATime]

This has happened to me twice! 😥

[dan]

I cannot guess why, actually.

Dates are used primarily for two purposes in Fireside:

1. To tell Fireside when to publish an episode (for a date in the future)
2. To control sort order

Otherwise, dates "don't matter" to Fireside, and further, there's nothing wrong with having an episode that is private/unlisted with a date in the past. This is by design.

If you're asking for a different kind of behavior around dates, I'd be curious to learn about it, but we won't be sending emails for a condition that is both normal and not indicative of an error.

[mfessler]

The scenario in my case is that I will set a publication date for an episode, leave it private or unlisted while I finish show notes or ask for a guest's feedback on the preview page, and then sometimes forget to switch it to public before the publication date. It would be helpful to be able to opt into a reminder email in cases like this. (Maybe it could be a checkbox next to the status and data fields).

[dan]

Interesting suggestions, thanks.