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Mon, 27 May 2013 15:44:19

The editor hacked up my post several times whilst writing out a long reply to a post. I quote a lot and deleted the extraneous bits. It was fine and then at the end I noticed half my reply was cut off, the top half. Then I tried again and it hacked away the top part again. Not going to lie, it was pretty annoying. The only hiccup I noticed was that you could not highlight and delete text, instead I would have to put the cursor at the end and delete. It seemed to work okay but half my post was gone by the end and it was a pretty long reply.

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Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:44:56

Been getting a lot of instances where the site is inaccesible recentely. Most an error code, I will write it down next time. Site tries to load, never does, ends up at white screen with error code.

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Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:39:17

No one can embed video using the usual method. Also tools for editing updates wont appear for me.

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Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:22:59

Yoda, where are you?

We need to be able to embed videos again Sad

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Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:48:35

Seriously the site is missing something without embed videos. It's part of the vgpress advantage.

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Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:58:49

Embedding videos does still not work.

Edited: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:59:15

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Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:02:57

How did Leo do it?

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Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:44:39

He did?

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:03:56
gamingeek said:

He did?

Unless he just posted a picture of a YouTube video, he did on ggweekly a few days ago or so.

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:12:34

I've done it too. See?

It's kinda a pain in the ass as you have to modify HTML to do it. I just copied the HTML in Leo's post, and changed the links to any video I wanted to post.

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:20:26

Here's the HTML:

<object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/x78V-NmZw1c" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"><param name="movie" value="www.youtube.com/v/x78V-NmZw1c" /><!--[if IE]><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x78V-NmZw1c"type="application/x-shockwave-flash"wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /><![endif]--></object></p>

All you have to do is change the parts in bold to the link of any YT video you want to embed, and paste it in these three locations. Then copy and past the entire thing into the Source editor. You can also use the Toggle Editor.

Edited: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:54:22

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:43:37

Didn't work for me. Sad

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:49:45

Did you change then entire YT link, or just the part of the link in bold, Foolz? If you copy and paste the entire YT link, it won't work. Only copy the part after the v= from your browser bar of the YT video you want to embed, and paste it in the three bolded locations in the code above.

Edited: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:50:50

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 04:19:10
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Did you change then entire YT link, or just the part of the link in bold, Foolz? If you copy and paste the entire YT link, it won't work. Only copy the part after the v= from your browser bar of the YT video you want to embed, and paste it in the three bolded locations in the code above.

Just the parts in bold. I'll try again later, though.

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:13:40

Here's a more clear explanation.

This is a normal Youtube video link as would be seen in your browser's address bar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eO5U_uN7DQ

Copy only the part after v= in that link:

1eO5U_uN7DQ

Paste that part of the link into HTML code replacing all three bolded parts only:

<object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/1eO5U_uN7DQ" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"><param name="movie" value="www.youtube.com/v/1eO5U_uN7DQ" /><!--[if IE]><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1eO5U_uN7DQ"type="application/x-shockwave-flash"wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /><![endif]--></object></p>

^ This is now your new embed code for your YT video. Copy/paste into Source or toggle editor, and it should work. I hope this helps. Happy

Edited: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:50:01

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Thu, 15 Aug 2013 06:28:38


(I think I missed the "-" when pasting originally.)

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Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:26:51
Ravenprose said:

Here's a more clear explanation.

This is a normal Youtube video link as would be seen in your browser's address bar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eO5U_uN7DQ

Copy only the part after v= in that link:

1eO5U_uN7DQ

Paste that part of the link into HTML code replacing all three bolded parts only:

<object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/1eO5U_uN7DQ" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"><param name="movie" value="www.youtube.com/v/1eO5U_uN7DQ" /><!--[if IE]><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1eO5U_uN7DQ"type="application/x-shockwave-flash"wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /><![endif]--></object></p>

^ This is now your new embed code for your YT video. Copy/paste into Source or toggle editor, and it should work. I hope this helps. Happy

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Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:19:36
The bug with embedding isn't on our side, it's on Youtube's.  The URLs in the old embed code are wrong, and are missing `http:` before the URLs.  The data parameters look like //www.youtube.com/... instead of http://www.youtube.com/...

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Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:25:10

I didn't even notice that. Cool! That makes it even easier to fix now. Thanks, Yoda!

Edited: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:25:36

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Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:30:45

Sweet, thanks!

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