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    Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Would be great feature to be able to embed the actual image of the youtube video that you want to post in a thread.

    would it be alot of work to get the tech on this website so we can do this??

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    should be a code to use like the [img] tags

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    It's no work at all infact, the feature is there but is switched off. We switched it off (or rarther we never enabled it) because allowing HTML on a public-ish forum is extreemely risky. invariably people will misuse it, weather they intend to or not. It would cause a multitude of problems. There would be no way of allowing only youtube code, for example.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    ahh I see, its a good feature though and works well on cliosport, I understand that there is a certain risk involved that someone may post something offensive to others, but surely this is highly unlikely on a site dedicated to renault turbo cars that this would happen, unless someone wants to be really un-popular with everyone else

    maybe we could have a weeks trial or something and see how we get on??

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Thats what people thought with the last website, but still members managed to fill their profiles with unsuitable HTML, some of which so bad that it prevented them or anyone else accessing it in order to remedy it or change basic details

    I didn't know cliosport allowed that - are you able to post "any" HTML and it'll proccess it ? Maybe they've found a solution to allow only youtube (etc) type embeds. I'd need more info on that one to decide if it's something we could add, or not.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    I think it is mostly youtube vids that are embedded on cliosport, the only others i have seen is embedded images of what people have saved of there own in car footage they have saved on photobucket etc..

    All in all it seems to work really well on Cliosport, infact i would say nearly a third of all threads posted would probably contain a you tube embed somewhere

    Only an idea Scoff, just think it would be a great feature on the site and make threads a bit more colourfull and exciting. If its not much work to turn on we could certainly see how it pans out, cant see that much risk involved as there is still nothing to stop the small minority of noobs posting an image or a link of anything they want

    will leave it with you.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Yeah, it'll definately be cool if it all went to plan, but I really can't switch the full HTML support on else all hell will break loose on the forum, we've seen it all before. I think cliosport must have some system that allows only a limited use of HTML, which might be fine. Our option is a simple ON/OFF for all HTML - which would mean we were wide open for code abuse.

    If anyone happens to know anything about cliosport's HTML policy then I'd be happy to hear about it and I'll see if we can enable something similar.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    apart from having a picture with a grey triangle in it is there an advantage over a link?

    Embedded pictures and HTML are fine until someone replies and leaves the images in the reply - one of my pet internet hates my scroll finger only has so much in it before RSI sets in

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Answer = employ a free spinning wheel mouse

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    all hell will break loose on the forum,
    I seem to recall having to delete someone account in order to unlock the whole website one time as the html in his name field had jammed it!

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    Thats what people thought with the last website, but still members managed to fill their profiles with unsuitable HTML, some of which so bad that it prevented them or anyone else accessing it in order to remedy it or change basic details
    Ahahahaha. I remember. Loads of members were at it. Why can't people leave things alone, especially when they don't have the skills to successfully meddle, lol?

    Some folk had altered their profiles so much and c*cked it up so badly the information was barely comprehensible. I didn't realise it had gone to the point of being irrevocable. Numpties.

    It became ridiculous, I can fully understand why the door is closed to that stuff these days.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Quote Originally Posted by Ian S View Post
    I seem to recall having to delete someone account in order to unlock the whole website one time as the html in his name field had jammed it!

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    LOL, yes maybe he was the culprit

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Can we please have signatures like every other forum ever made.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Quote Originally Posted by Kenobi View Post
    Can we please have signatures like every other forum ever made.
    People who like to see their name in lights, their website advertised or their cars perfomance publiciced like to have that junk appended to their posts. Everyone but the author will hate it. Who ever said to anyone (and ment in sincerley): "hey, I really like reading the same egocentric drivel each time you post" ?

    I think what makes this forum better than most is people usually only say something when they have something usefull to say, and not just just a 'bump', worthless comment or a "" with the sole end being to air their signature again.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    I think the forum is FAR better off without it, I feel they are uneccessary anyway.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Can we leave the website as it is ? i hate the laoding times of some peoples funky moving prfile pics on ther sites etc site works well when its not down...

    Wont youtube direct things make the site slower etc etc

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Like others here I personally prefer it without embedded youtube vids and sigs they just add unnecessary clutter to thread.

    As for quoting pics I'd have to agree Andrew extremely annoying, someone quoting several pics to say 'nice'

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    People who like to see their name in lights, their website advertised or their cars perfomance publiciced like to have that junk appended to their posts. Everyone but the author will hate it. Who ever said to anyone (and ment in sincerley): "hey, I really like reading the same egocentric drivel each time you post" ?

    I think what makes this forum better than most is people usually only say something when they have something usefull to say, and not just just a 'bump', worthless comment or a "" with the sole end being to air their signature again.


    Really can make a thread hard to read.

    We have a pretty good profile area with this site for people to show their stuff.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Quote Originally Posted by tiff_lee View Post
    Like others here I personally prefer it without embedded youtube vids and sigs they just add unnecessary clutter to thread.

    As for quoting pics I'd have to agree Andrew extremely annoying, someone quoting several pics to say 'nice'
    Post 12 was funny though.

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    Re: Being able to Embed YouTube videos in a post

    Quote Originally Posted by Ian S View Post
    Post 12 was funny though.
    Oh yea very fitting I wasn't digging at that just meant in general on other forums.

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