Welcome to a special episode of Decoder! We’re Nick and Kate, the show’s producers, and for this year-end episode, we’re turning the tables on Nilay and making him answer your listener questions.

We’ve had a really busy 12 months. We interviewed a lot of people, and published more shows this year than in any past year thanks to our second episode, which we launched in February. It’s been a lot of work — and a lot of fun. So we wanted to take a moment to look back on some of our favorite themes of the year, address some common listener feedback, and also talk a bit about what’s next. 

We thought the best way to do this would be to grill Nilay with a bunch of your questions. So on this episode, Nilay is the Decoder guest. We asked listeners what they’ve wanted to ask the team, and we also have a huge collection of emails from the past year — yes, we really do read all of them — and we pulled some of our favorites.

That includes, of course, our most-asked listener questions of all: Why is Decoder not on YouTube Music, and why aren’t full video versions of Decoder episodes on YouTube? Don’t worry — we get into all that and more.

If you’d like to check out some of the past Decoder episodes and news stories we talked about in this episode, check out the links below. Happy New Year! Thanks for listening; we’ll be back with all new episodes in mid-January.

• Here we go: The Verge now has a subscription | The Verge
• How The Verge Works | The Vergecast
• Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode | Decoder
• What’s really behind Big Tech’s return-to-office mandates? | Decoder
• Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t thinking too far ahead | Decoder
• UiPath CEO Daniel Dines thinks automation can fight the great resignation | Decoder
• Transparent Vice | The Verge
• Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan | Tablet 
• A revolution in how robots learn | The New Yorker