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Embed YouTube videos in posts
Awdax:
So just because something could be abused, it shouldn't be enabled? That's stupid. If it really does tempt people to pull stuff like that, they'll just get banned and have their post removed/edited. It'd allow people to use it for useful things where it should be used, and easily rid the forums of the idiots - the ones who abuse it. Everybody wins.
carolcat:
--- Quote from: Pacnet2012² on August 06, 2012, 05:14:12 PM ---For SMF, you go to Admin -> Posts and topics -> Post settings -> Embed flash into posts and this will work.
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I'm pretty sure they know how to enable it considering the fact that they knew how to disable it. They probably disabled it for a good reason, too- and I'm perfectly fine with not being able to embed videos, if I do say so myself.
phflack:
i'm not sure how this would lag the forums
wouldn't it be just like images? the forums redirects the person to the file location on the hosting site
Evar678:
--- Quote from: phflack on August 06, 2012, 05:33:01 PM ---i'm not sure how this would lag the forums
wouldn't it be just like images? the forums redirects the person to the file location on the hosting site
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He means one page on a topic containing something like 30 videos would lag the browser's load time.
Like how a topic with very large / a lot of images takes a few extra seconds to load. Only the time for videos would be larger.
Masterlegodude:
--- Quote from: Awdax on August 06, 2012, 05:31:05 PM ---So just because something could be abused, it shouldn't be enabled? That's stupid. If it really does tempt people to pull stuff like that, they'll just get banned and have their post removed/edited. It'd allow people to use it for useful things where it should be used, and easily rid the forums of the idiots - the ones who abuse it. Everybody wins.
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