The Castro iOS podcast app has been shut down since Friday and its web site not exists a month after the crew behind Castro denied rumors that the app was shutting down. Customers started reporting on Friday that they had been unable to obtain new episodes or entry Castro’s web site. When The Verge we contacted the contacts that had been listed on Castro’s web site, all of our emails had been returned as undeliverable as a result of the area couldn’t be discovered.
A Friday Reddit put up is stuffed with responses from individuals who cannot use important components of the app, and up to date evaluations from its itemizing on the iOS App Retailer inform the identical story. After we downloaded the app for testing, we had been unable to hook up with Castro’s servers to seek out reveals to hearken to.
The app has been visibly on the ropes since November, when the app was shut down for just a few days attributable to a database concern that turned out to be extra difficult than the crew anticipated. That very same month, some retailers and blogs reported that Castro’s shutdown was imminent, however Castro was in a position to resume service.
Shortly after, the crew posted on X (previously Twitter) that any communications concerning his impending demise had been “unofficial”. The put up is linked to a December 1st weblog that’s not immediately accessible as its website is now down.
An archived model of the put up denied Castro was closing however acknowledged the corporate was “on the lookout for a brand new dwelling for Castro with new homeowners” after an unspecified variety of worker departures. One such rumor got here from a former member of Castro’s crew, Mohit Mamoria, who POSTED on November 27, the app shall be “closed for the following two months.”
The Verge reached out to father or mother firm Castro Tiny, however didn’t hear again by press time.