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Embedding YouTube videos in posts <oooh>

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RowanMumsnet · 28/03/2014 11:17

Hi all

Just to let you know, we're soon going to enable you to embed YouTube videos in your posts. (Only YouTube ones we're afraid; the system works via the auto-detection of YouTube links so it won't work for other video sites.)

When we turn it on (probably later today), you can just add the YouTube URL to your post, and when the post appears on the thread the video will appear as a clickable thumbnail.

We've put a maximum of three videos on each post, but there's no daily limit to how many you can post (because unlike pictures, the video links don't place an extra load on our servers).

Hopefully this won't lead to much trolly nastiness because YouTube is fairly well policed, but as ever do please report anything you think we need to see or take down.

Thanks
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NymodigFruOla · 30/03/2014 17:38

Oh, sorry, Plenty, I misunderstood (I'm a bit of a numpty!) Blush

Actually, I have another question for MNHQ about this. I was trawling through some old threads this morning, one of which had a YouTube link. But the YouTube link was now showing as 'live' (like the one posted by nannynick ^^ up there).

Does this mean that all YouTube links on any old thread are now showing as live? Not that it makes any difference to me, but I just wondered?

PlentyOfPubeGardens · 30/03/2014 17:35

Well yeah, just as MN servers will suffer if people on other sites embed the images in people's posts here. It's the way the whole rest of the internet seems to work though.

RustyBear · 30/03/2014 17:17

But wouldn't the servers for the website you grabbed the pictures from suffer, PubeGardens?

PlentyOfPubeGardens · 30/03/2014 17:09

Yes, something different Smile

That's an uploaded image. Embedding is when you find an image that's already online somewhere and just post the url (usually with some sort of simple tags round it) and it shows up as an image.

I've just done a test:

  • found random image of bananas online and copied url
  • clicked 'browse'
  • pasted url into the 'file name' box

It seems to have worked (from my preview). However, hovering over the image reveals it has been copied to the MN servers, i.e. uploaded to MN. This places an extra load on the servers, which is why we are limited to 6 images per day (and I've just wasted one of mine on a pointless bananas pic Hmm)

There doesn't seem to be any need for this, especially if we can now embed videos. If we could truly embed images we could use as many as we like and the servers wouldn't suffer.

Embedding YouTube videos in posts <oooh>
NymodigFruOla · 30/03/2014 15:49

Umm, Plenty, we've been able to do that for a while. Here's one I've posted a couple of times now. Or do you mean something different?

Embedding YouTube videos in posts <oooh>
PlentyOfPubeGardens · 30/03/2014 14:40

Thank you! Any chance of embedding images?

nannynick · 28/03/2014 20:55

Ah, that may explain a strange error message that came up earlier today when accessing a message thread... page 2 could not be displayed due to an error in some code relating to YouTube. (no error message now, so guess it was whilst code was being added/tested).

Video test: