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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
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PostPosted: 20:43 - 07 Nov 2020    Post subject: can we PLEASE enable YouTube embedding? Reply with quote

So far as I know, phpBB boards have a simple way to enable admins to give posters the ability to embed youtube links, so that the video thumbnail etc. show up when linked to.

I can't think of a reason to not do this - it's extremely unlikely that a youtube thumbnail will contain any dodgy imagery. The main argument would be that admins haven't got time to uhm admin it. In which case - as you were.
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PostPosted: 21:34 - 07 Nov 2020    Post subject: Re: can we PLEASE enable YouTube embedding? Reply with quote

trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote:

I can't think of a reason to not do this - it's extremely unlikely that a youtube thumbnail will contain any dodgy imagery.


Having swum in the sewer that is “last post wins” and paddled through the RhinoCZ thread I can’t think of anything that you could post in a youtoob link that could be worse.

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PostPosted: 22:35 - 07 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

As far as I can remember, this forum is built off phpbb 2 and has been very heavily customised.

I expect phpbb 3 (i.e. the one after the version this is based on) came out before YouTube was even a thing, so it certainly won't be a case of ticking something.

I doubt it'll happen!
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PostPosted: 23:19 - 07 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's possible to post links with thumbnails manually...

Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p3Fp43jJuo&ab_channel=RRCRestoration
The video reference is therefore 9p3Fp43jJuo

Thumbnail exists here:
Code:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<video id>/default.jpg

Example:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/9p3Fp43jJuo/default.jpg

You could put it together as two pieces:
Code:
[img]https://img.youtube.com/vi/9p3Fp43jJuo/default.jpg[/img]
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p3Fp43jJuo&ab_channel=RRCRestoration[/url]

https://img.youtube.com/vi/9p3Fp43jJuo/default.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p3Fp43jJuo&ab_channel=RRCRestoration

Or combine like this:
Code:
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p3Fp43jJuo&ab_channel=RRCRestoration][img]https://img.youtube.com/vi/9p3Fp43jJuo/default.jpg[/img][/url]

https://img.youtube.com/vi/9p3Fp43jJuo/default.jpg
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PostPosted: 23:21 - 07 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

And you can get a bigger thumbnail with:
Code:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<video id>/hqdefault.jpg

https://img.youtube.com/vi/9p3Fp43jJuo/hqdefault.jpg
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PostPosted: 13:59 - 08 Nov 2020    Post subject: Re: can we PLEASE enable YouTube embedding? Reply with quote

trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote:
So far as I know, phpBB boards have a simple way to enable admins to give posters the ability to embed youtube links, so that the video thumbnail etc. show up when linked to.

BCF doesn't.

BCF predates YouTube. Laughing
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
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PostPosted: 07:41 - 18 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

whoah
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