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New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 12:05 pm
by greeneyed
nacho has updated our site software and implemented a great new media embedding feature.

It allows you to embed YouTube videos, Tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts etc. The list of supported sites is large... so feel free to experiment.

This is the list of supported sites that you can embed from: https://s9etextformatter.readthedocs.io ... bed/Sites/

Some on the list: abcnews, amazon, bbcnews, bleacherreport, cbsnews, cnbc, cnn, comedycentral, dailymotion, espn, facebook, flickr, foxnews, getty, gifs, giphy, hudl, imdb, imgr, instagram, nbcnews, nbcsports, reddit, soundcloud, spotify, twitter, vevo, vimeo, youtube

All you do is paste the URL of the media on another site and then put the media code around it. You get the code by clicking on the little icon of a screen at the far right hand side of the commands above the response box.

[media][/media]





















The old YouTube code has been replaced, and the old YouTube video links are presently dead. nacho is working on a solution to that, but we might simply have to replace them manually, where that is needed.

So try it out! And thanks again to nacho for all the work he does for the site and making it better and better!

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 12:33 pm
by Botman
fantastic feature. Super helpful for tweets in particular

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 12:46 pm
by greeneyed
Botman wrote: January 4, 2021, 12:33 pm fantastic feature. Super helpful for tweets in particular
It's magic! Facebook posts as well...

It is a much better mod than the old YouTube mod, as you just need the "share" link, no adjustment to it needed, as with the old YouTube mod.

I've now included a link to the list of supported sites in the original post. If in doubt, you can always play around in finding the URL or embed links at a site... and see if it works!

Some on the list: abcnews, amazon, bbcnews, bleacherreport, cbsnews, cnbc, cnn, comedycentral, dailymotion, espn, facebook, flickr, foxnews, getty, gifs, giphy, hudl, imdb, imgr, instagram, nbcnews, nbcsports, reddit, soundcloud, spotify, twitter, vevo, vimeo, youtube

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 1:36 pm
by BJ
Bring back the old GH site that ran on my Commodore 64. Bring back Terry Fahey and Chicka too.

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 1:50 pm
by greeneyed
BJ wrote: January 4, 2021, 1:36 pm Bring back the old GH site that ran on my Commodore 64. Bring back Terry Fahey and Chicka too.



Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 2:09 pm
by gerg
Awesome feature, but god I hate twitter.

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Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 2:12 pm
by greeneyed
gergreg wrote: January 4, 2021, 2:09 pm Awesome feature, but god I hate twitter.

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Why the Twitter hate?

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 2:16 pm
by gerg
greeneyed wrote:
gergreg wrote: January 4, 2021, 2:09 pm Awesome feature, but god I hate twitter.

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Why the Twitter hate?
Gives people a voice that seriously don't need to be heard.

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Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 2:21 pm
by BJ
I can’t believe the commentators thought one of the passes was forward in the Chicka involvement.

Passes used to have to be deeply backwards under the old refereeing interpretations.

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 2:39 pm
by greeneyed
gergreg wrote: January 4, 2021, 2:16 pm
greeneyed wrote:
gergreg wrote: January 4, 2021, 2:09 pm Awesome feature, but god I hate twitter.

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Why the Twitter hate?
Gives people a voice that seriously don't need to be heard.

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Suspect that’s true of any social media. It’s probably worse on Facebook in that regard. But it is the way of democracy. Our Twitter community is very smart and they’re nice people too... so we have good interactions there. Plus it is the best place for breaking news.

It is perhaps more worrying for me that false accounts get established for political reasons. There are a couple of great documentaries around... I think both on Netflix. One shows precisely how a Russian state entity intervened with fake profiles in the 2016 US Presidential election. The other explains how Facebook works... and which allows actual “fake news”, not the Trump kind, and fake minority political groups to spread.

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 4, 2021, 2:40 pm
by greeneyed
BJ wrote: January 4, 2021, 2:21 pm I can’t believe the commentators thought one of the passes was forward in the Chicka involvement.

Passes used to have to be deeply backwards under the old refereeing interpretations.
Yep, lots of forward passes let go these days. As bad as union.

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 7, 2021, 6:32 pm
by Bay53
It does seem to give error messages at times if you reply to posts with things embedded in them. I am sure it will be something that will get fixed. Not sure if anyone else has noticed.

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: January 10, 2021, 12:25 pm
by nachopants
If someone does see this can you please screenshot the error for me and pop it here <3

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 19, 2021, 11:10 am
by Botman
nachopants wrote: January 10, 2021, 12:25 pm If someone does see this can you please screenshot the error for me and pop it here <3
Hey mate,

Noticed i cant use the media tag in the Canberra Raiders board
I can do it in this board, and in the lime lounge, but if the thread is in the Canberra Raiders board i get the following error

Image

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 20, 2021, 5:56 pm
by nachopants
Hmm thanks mate, I suspect that's a permissions thing more than a bug, I'll take a look

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 21, 2021, 8:29 pm
by Botman
nachopants wrote: March 20, 2021, 5:56 pm Hmm thanks mate, I suspect that's a permissions thing more than a bug, I'll take a look
Seems that way. I can do it in literally any other board on the site except it.
Did some googling myself and it suggested it was permission based.


Probably just GE persecuting me as USUAL! :D :lol:

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 21, 2021, 8:41 pm
by greeneyed
Botman wrote: March 21, 2021, 8:29 pm
nachopants wrote: March 20, 2021, 5:56 pm Hmm thanks mate, I suspect that's a permissions thing more than a bug, I'll take a look
Seems that way. I can do it in literally any other board on the site except it.
Did some googling myself and it suggested it was permission based.


Probably just GE persecuting me as USUAL! :D :lol:
I checked the permissions and I can’t see anything wrong, sorry. Maybe nacho or another Admin can.

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 21, 2021, 8:54 pm
by Botman
We'll wait and see what Nacho comes up with it!
Strange one, could be something odd on my end. Or you just hate me?

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 21, 2021, 8:56 pm
by zim
Happens to me too.

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 22, 2021, 9:14 am
by nachopants
Should be fixed gents :)

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 22, 2021, 9:23 am
by zim
Looks good mate thanks!

Re: New media embedding feature

Posted: March 23, 2021, 8:54 am
by Botman
nachopants wrote: March 22, 2021, 9:14 am Should be fixed gents :)
Legend!
:thumbsup :thumbsup