maximum age setting for new episode badge counter
Proposal: a global setting for the maximum amount of time to include unlistened episodes to the counted for badge display. This way you can have badges reporting, for example, number of unlistened episodes for a podcast within the last month.
An override in the podcast custom setting would also be good, for adjusting some podcasts that publish very frequently, or infrequently.
The unplayed counter badge is not really useful if you have a lot of podcasts subscribed and only listen to some occasionally. The problem is that you end up with a lot of unplayed podcasts from an increasingly distant past that you don't care as much about: so the badge counter always has a ridiculously high number, and you can't tell how many of those number are "fresh". Especially if you later become become very interested in following a particular podcast, the backlog of unlistened podcasts makes it so that the unlistened badge count for newer episodes is meaningless.
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Mic commented
I just noticed the "Add a counter for newly available episodes that are not already downloaded or on playlist" suggestion is somewhat similar, though different. If nothing else, it shows many people would like to find the counter badge more useful than they do now... but in different ways.