Why are we not allowed to embed HTML in certain forums, such as Off Topics, Prepping, and a few others? Given how tweets and social media posts make up an ever growing part of the news and discussions, it's a real PIA not being able to include them.
Please enable HTML Across The Board
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The lack of HTML doesn't bother me.
I rebuild the links, and clean up the text, anyway -- to make it quickly legible.
It's also debatably safer if it's just text and links and images -- both for users, and to keep threads from disappearing (we've had threads that wouldn't display, because of a bad post with bad html).
I rebuild the links, and clean up the text, anyway -- to make it quickly legible.
It's also debatably safer if it's just text and links and images -- both for users, and to keep threads from disappearing (we've had threads that wouldn't display, because of a bad post with bad html).
Question for YOU RangeBob:
What kind of weird voodoo do you employ to display youtube video links as actual links, rather than as videos? Sometimes I just want to put a link to a video, without the actual video appearing, and everything I've tried still results in the forum showing the video, even when I put the link in URL tags.
What kind of weird voodoo do you employ to display youtube video links as actual links, rather than as videos? Sometimes I just want to put a link to a video, without the actual video appearing, and everything I've tried still results in the forum showing the video, even when I put the link in URL tags.
Amateur tip: if you enable your mouse's right-click function, both 'copy' and 'paste' become even easier.
The globe with the chain links icon gets you this: https://www.kembativz.com/[/URL
The film negative icon get you this: [VIDEO]https://www.kembativz.com/[/VIDEO
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http: // y2u.be / [youtube code]
It seems to be the only format that GoC doesn't automatically turn into a video.
e.g.
Pierre Poilievre Comments on the Justin Trudeau Cabinet Shuffle
Oct 28 2021, 1 minute
http://y2u.be/UrmN6qqogZM
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I don't know if it is an html thing or not but it is frustrating that sometimes tweets will imbed and others not.
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That's precisely what I'm talking about. On some forums HTML in "on", while for others it is "off". And it seems kind of random which are on and which are off. I thought it was just Off Topics, but I've found others as well.
Scroll down to the very bottom of each page and you will see:
Posting Permissions
You may post new threads
You may post replies
You may post attachments
You may edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
code is On
[VIDEO] code is On
[B][U]HTML code is Off[/U][/B]
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Interesting. I never knew about that "shortcut" url. When I try to grab links I only get the "youtu.be" shortcut link. Do you enter that shortcut manually, or is there some way to generate that type of link directly from the video (when you click "copy video URL" for example)?
That's cute. But we're talking Pro, here.
The website I enter manually. The YoutubeCode I cut/paste, which is sort of manually.
e.g. with
Pierre Poilievre Inflation tax: “higher for longer”
Oct 28 2021, 7 minutes
https: // www. youtube .com / watch?v=abl_lBskzQ4
http://y2u.be/abl_lBskzQ4
the most common thing I do is
a) copy/paste the title from the youtube
b) type the date, and the minutes
c) copy the youtube URL from youtube
d) push the GoC VIDEO post toolbar button, and paste it into that, and push OK, which gives
[ VIDEO ]https: // www. youtube .com / watch?v=abl_lBskzQ4 [ / VIDEO]
(obviously there wouldn't be spaces)
e) I double click on the YouTube code, and copy that to the clipboard, i.e. the "abl_lBskzQ4" part is the YouTube code
f) I type
http://y2u.be/
and then paste the YouTube code onto the end giving
http://y2u.be/abl_lBskzQ4
and the result is that it looks like this
Pierre Poilievre Inflation tax: “higher for longer”
Oct 28 2021, 7 minutes
which corresponds to what some GoC user beginning with "R" said he could read both of all the time.
Ok, I got it now.
Back to HTML:
"What do we want?"
"The equal application of HTML across all subforms on this site."
"When do we want it?"
"Sooner or later would be just dandy!"
Alternatively, if one clicks on the Go Advanced button below the new post`reply window, you can disable the Automatically parse links in text option.
I've done that too.
When someone else quotes me when I've done that, they end up with videos that were just links.
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I can't see the content of post #3678.
But, being able to understand html, I was able to locate the content.
Nov 3 2021, https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1455767741617561600
