Accidental Tech Podcast · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Marco Arment announced a significant change to Overcast's episode limiting feature, introducing the option to 'keep the first X episodes' in addition to the existing 'keep the last X episodes' functionality. This change, inspired by listener feedback, aims to improve the user experience and address long-standing edge cases.
“So, what I shipped, and, and it's now in the latest build of Overcast, is that you can choose whether to keep the last X episodes or the first X episodes.”
“But you can choose to keep the first three. So if you do that, then any of the manually added episodes will be gone.”
“And I think it is actually a better approach than my original thinking.”