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I looked into this. This function used to be available in phpBB2, but not phpBB3. If they add it again in an update in the future, we'll look at enabling it again.
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Post subject: Re: New BBCodes/changes/suggestions/etc.
Posted: Sat November 09, 2013 4:05 pm
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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
Bandcamp Single Tracks
Note: This can only be used to embed single tracks that are not in an album.
Actually, you can include any track with that code, even if it's part of an album. It's just that bandcamp won't show the track ID in their embed code, so you have to find it yourself. It can be found in several places in the source code of the page, such as this one:
Use this as if it were a regular bookmark, click on it when you're on a bandcamp album OR track page and it will show you the correct BBcode so you just have to copy/paste it into your post.
Post subject: Re: New BBCodes/changes/suggestions/etc.
Posted: Mon November 11, 2013 4:07 am
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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
Can we go back to the old YouTube code?
The new one sucks.
I haven't changed the YouTube code. Do you mean the one on the old board? How was it different?
Just the video ID instead of the full URL. In theory the full URL should be easier for people, the problem is there's like a half a dozen different ways to navigate to a video on youtube and they all provide a slightly different url and only one works.
Post subject: Re: New BBCodes/changes/suggestions/etc.
Posted: Mon November 11, 2013 4:46 am
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For the sake of simplicity, I'd vote junking the "full URL" one altogether and just revert back to
Code:
[YouTube]video ID[/YouTube]
- as chud pointed out, the problem is that the full URL varies depending on whether you went in through YouTube, whether you're using a mobile device, whether you use the share URL instead, etc.
I don't see a reason to keep it but others might disagree.
If we remove the old code, all the current posted videos will break, and all of Stickman's work will be ruined.
Yeah, mainly this. Unless any one would like to volunteer and edit all of the codes.
Plus, there are a lot of users that would still keep the habit of using the old URL method. I think it's better to keep it running. There's no real negative to having both options to give users a preference.
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Rangi Guy wrote:
So skating back to the train station after work today things went wrong.....now my skateboard is at the bottom of the harbour
Post subject: Re: New BBCodes/changes/suggestions/etc.
Posted: Mon November 11, 2013 5:00 am
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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
There's no real negative to having both options to give users a preference.
I don't know, it seems kind of messy. I think having consistency moving forward is worth screwing up 10 months' worth of posts but I might be in the minority there.
Either way, I'm glad to have the old code back - thanks Sarge.
I think it will be more messy to break 10 months worth of codes. Plus, not all users check in this forum/thread for changes. There'll be quite a few pissed off users wondering why their videos no longer embed.
I can understand the need for consistency, but I think user-friendliness outweighs that need.
Anyway, if there are any other things that you'd like added/changed let me know here and I'm happy to look into them. There are still other items in progress on my list, and some are awaiting certain decisions/permissions from Admins, so there's still more to come (including new skin(s)! ).
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Rangi Guy wrote:
So skating back to the train station after work today things went wrong.....now my skateboard is at the bottom of the harbour
Post subject: Re: New BBCodes/changes/suggestions/etc.
Posted: Mon November 11, 2013 10:51 am
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It should be possible to make a single BBcode that works for all sorts of youtube URLs, using a system similar to what I experimented with bandcamp there, i.e. with a call to an intermediate script that analyzes the URL and extract the relevant data.
Post subject: Re: New BBCodes/changes/suggestions/etc.
Posted: Mon November 11, 2013 11:35 pm
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Birds in Hell wrote:
Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
There's no real negative to having both options to give users a preference.
I don't know, it seems kind of messy. I think having consistency moving forward is worth screwing up 10 months' worth of posts but I might be in the minority there.
Either way, I'm glad to have the old code back - thanks Sarge.
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