for people who follow quite a few podcasts, and for those who follow ones that they only listen to very rarely: folders could be useful, maybe with quick drag and drop and maybe notification settings for the podcasts in those folders, even a preset might be convenient for new users, something like: favourites, news & business, politics & science, entertainment, media & sports talk, life & health. maybe a "paused" folder to which upon dragging something in there mutes it until you maybe want to reactivate it later, to help not forget it maybe.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 487173 ***