I've seen a lot of questions about missing podcasts. Google is updating their downloads and putting things on their standalone podcast app first. It's good, you need to resub to all your podcasts, but it's a lot better than listening on Google play.
There's plenty of apps people can use, clearly some of them want to use Google Play.
If Google aren't updating podcasts in Play so that people switch over to Google Podcasts, that's just being shitty, especially if there's no way to automatically carry over your subscriptions.
it's a lot better than listening on Google play.
Is it? I looked into it, and it seems like it offers nothing that Google Play doesn't, and has way fewer features. The big dealbreaker for me is that I don't see any way to play podcasts through a web browser, which I use Play for all the time to listen at work or when I'm gaming.