Service becoming more and more inconsistent? Any fixes?
Avid Pocketcasts user since 2018 here, with over 280 days of cumulative listening. I moved to Pocketcasts 8 years ago because it was the only podcast app I could find with an iOS and Mac OS app to sync playing between them. I've mostly been very happy, but the Mac app stop working for me ~1 year ago. I was bummed, but switched to the website UI pretty seamlessly.
I've noticed some inconsistencies with the iOS app for a long time now. My most common issue is that I start a podcast on desktop then try to pick it up in the middle while on cell service and the podcast just refuses to play. Usually this is resolved by closing and restarting the app, but not always. Lately it's been happening almost constantly, though, and also failing to start brand new episodes on cell service. What used to be something that would come up from time to time as an annoyance is now basically a non-functional app unless I'm on WiFi.
I've also had issues with episodes not correctly syncing across platform, so when I hit play on another device it rewinds to some much earlier point in the episode and I have to manually fast forward to where I left off.
The final straw though is that today the website is just stopping playback randomly for seemingly no reason? It's happened to me 3 times today. It's fixed by a refresh and hitting play again, but why is it happening in the first place?
Is there anything I can do to alleviate these issues? Are other people experiencing them?