After close to one year after the last reply, we can revisit the home screen 
I just had a bit of time and revived @ueen’s home screen PR. You can follow the progress here: Home Screen by ByteHamster · Pull Request #5864 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub
This is how it currently looks (basically the same as @ueen’s work. My recent changes were under the hood only)
Now when using it for a bit while implementing, I am not sure I like the new way of showing the episodes. It does look more interesting than our existing lists but also has a few problems:
- Font size of the title is very small (12dp). I think it’s the smallest text we have in the app and I don’t think that is good for accessibility. Making it larger makes it impossible to read most of the title.
- The items are missing information like size, duration and playback position. This is especially interesting for the “Continue listening” part, where one probably wants to know how much is left.
- The lists do not support the new swipe actions that we are currently introducing everywhere else.
- It is a bit unclear what part of the cards should have what action. Currently, tapping anywhere on the whole card starts playback. Personally, I expected the card to open the episode details and only the play button to play. The play button is pretty small, though, so only the button might be hard to tap.
I think I would vote for using the basic episode lists like everywhere else in the app to avoid these problems.
Other thing I noticed: There now is a very prominent button to go to the statistics screen (next to “Check your classics”). I would rather expect that to link to the subscriptions screen because that’s a screen people use on a daily basis. The statistics are sometimes nice to look at, but not a regular thing that needs to be linked so prominently. Given that the statistics button is a lot more prominent in 2.6.0 already, I think it can be removed from the home screen.