Ideas for ILX

If I wish to post a youtube video just for a cheap referential joke, embedding is better than the link, because someone can look at the embed and be amused by the reference without having to click and go listen to find out what has been linked.

Alternatively, that person can be like, "oh yeah I had forgotten how awesome that song is" and go to it.

However, as it stands now, if you mess up the syntaxes or just paste a mobile link, then no one knows what referential jest is being made unless they follow the link, which is sometimes just too much trouble.

Accordingly I humbly ask that the code accommodate multiple modes of pasting a YT link, because it's tough to remember whether it's watch question mark vee equals or equals vee watch question mark and hand-code appropriately.

That's my case and I am sticking to it.

Ye might be Mad, Puffin, but ye are also otm

people trying to make referential jokes should simply take screenshots of the youtube video and embed those

otm

https://i.imgur.com/gX1CiK6.jpg

Silby, that's like five more steps. Are you suggesting I take a screenshot, download it locally, upload it to a site like imgur (or whatever), copy the url, then put it in my ilx post as an img tag?

By that point the conversation has moved on and it isn't funny or topical anymore.

In contrast, everything on YouTube is already online and can be linked to directly.

You could write a command line tool that does all those steps for you

also you were pwned by an xpost

but the also mooted-by-stet inbuilt image hosting would streamline this

Fuck all y'all

https://bi.im-g.pl/im/4/8762/z8762534Q,Rick-Astley.jpg

And I say that with all the love in the world

I just clicked the play button on that still
https://media1.tenor.com/images/2d3038f6270517912a838b6ea2516b77/tenor.gif

Here is a Malarkey Post

https://images.fandango.com/ImageRenderer/300/0/redesign/static/img/default_poster.png/0/images/masterrepository/performer%20images/p57429/MarkiePost-2018.jpg

Just popping in to say any of the above that will spare me the humiliation of 11, 12 13 consective feailed embed-attempts

I never used to have this problem! Did YT re-jig something in recent years?

You could write a command line tool that does all those steps for you

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:42 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

YMP otmfm.

I never used to have this problem! Did YT re-jig something in recent years?

"Yeah they seem to sprinkle the "feature=YouTu.be" string in all over the URL depending on how you share it."

you could just delete this tbf

― MOAR PETE (sic), Thursday, February 6, 2020 1:44 PM (eight months ago)

Haha I was like "is Karl Malone turning into sic or something with this shit?" and then realized it was you. :)

#oneposter

#oneworldthread

> it's tough to remember whether it's watch question mark vee equals or equals vee watch question mark and hand-code appropriately.

This could be eased by adding an example to the 'formatting help' text.

idea: ilx clippy, a helper on every single screen who pops up and lets you now how they can help

Add a post!

it looks like you're trying to post a truncated youtube link, is that correct?

It looks like you're trying to flag this post. Confirm?

Youtube used to helpfully have an option to get the long link from the share button which was compatible with the ilx embed code. Now it doesn't.
Lots of us use mobile devices now, some of us exclusively, so it's hard to get long links.
Pissing around with 'watch question mark vee equals' etc results in threads full of unplayable black boxes.

It would make sense for the site to now support the shorter links for embeds (and for users/sic to be able to disable them).

Also add autoplay...

Or just add the correct syntax instructions to the "Show formatting help" text.

Currently all it says is:

For Tweets, or YouTube/Vimeo videos: Paste in the URL of the tweet or the page containing the video you wish to embed

Those instructions from a youtube app rather than a desktop browser would still be 5 steps to inevitable black boxes

Copy the link from the share button on the app, change youtu.be to youtube.com, we can't remember if this bit needs www or not, oh wait we forgot to remove the s from the http bit lol that's a pain in the arse to click your cursor into with a wee phone screen, right, now delete everything after the dot com and type watch ? = then the character string you just deleted and it's case sensitive now just cover your eyes and hit submit oh shit you forgot the forward slash or is it a backslash hang on

Also add autoplay...

this sounds like a GREAT move for threads with 120 embedded videos, stet you should definitely get distracted from silby's bookmarks idea

we used to have autoplay tho -- there was one thread that was whiney-adjacent that used it to hilarious result

the only good use of autoplay (possibly on the entire internet!) is uppers.gif

oh yeahhhhhh at one point it would autoplay on the admin log. that made me happy.

I may not have been entirely serious...

:)

silby i've done the bump-all-bookmarks thing, there's a new link at the top of the bookmarks page.

(well, it will be there after the next server restart — i'm not doing it right now because it's a ten-minute outage and what if they call this fucking thing)

Causing the call to happen by restarting would totally be worth it.

Is there even a They to call it?

I've heard there's nothing expected before 7p ET so I'll do it now

nice

it looks like either twitter's coding, or ILX's embed coding, has changed such that deleted tweets no longer get preserved when embedded :(

Still seems to be working like before, can you link a broken post?

cursed images: let's get together and pin down the aesthetic!

and

END TO END BERNERS: The Official Bernie Sanders 2020 Crew thread

both have similar trackery code thingies on the end, but the tweet urls don't load with those stripped either

Ah - I think what might have happened there is the tweet was posted after it had been deleted. If it’s posted before deletion we get a copy of the text and store it in our DB. After deletion we can only store the link. We only have the link in both those cases.

Strange that two have happened like that, though.

Yeah, it was seeing them both happen an hour apart that made it look like a pattern. Cheers!

after my billionth fail: some "did-you-mean" warning at use of the very most common html-tags? <i>fail</i> <b>fail</b>

very low priority, but sure nice to have

Preview post option would be nice to have.

Not sure if someone already asked this, but the ability to cross-post threads across boards would be cool. For example, this one:

What are your kids listening to in 2021?

would be good on ILM and IL People-Making.

anyone with even slight edgelord tendencies who has any sort of public profile should really set their tweets to auto delete how many examples must be made

― lag∞n, Monday, 4 January 2021 03:20 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

This but for here pls, also make it retroactive pls

Parker embeds

Parler embeds.

(And post editing for when autocorrect fucks up your jokes)

https://i.redd.it/2713l1q3f4921.jpg