This is a quick post about posting video clips on the forum moving forward.
In the past the quickest way to embed a Youtube video into a forum post was to use the [ youtube ] tag, the button for which can be found in the edit tool bar you see above each post as you write it. We were also running the deadmen.co.uk site using just http. This meant that anything posted to or from the forum whizzed across the internet in a readable form, a bit like sending a postcard.
Recently and for good reason Chrome and Firefox have begun showing warnings whenever we try to access an unsecure http: site like ours rather than a secure https: site. There's nothing particularly secret about our forum so we don't actually need to be using https. However the warnings were a concern, our site didn't look very professional being flagged as a potentially unsafe web site and we would certainly loose traffic as well as get down ranked by Google in search results. So we've recently obtained a SSL certificate and now all our traffic goes via https: hurrah.
One downside to this is that apparently some scripting on the site no longer works and is blocked. The most obvious of these is the [ youtube ] script. For a while if you access the forum via mobile you would just see BORKED in place of the actual video. Now it seems this is true for the tag on desktop browsers as well.
The solution..... don't use the youtube tag. Instead use the 'embed video' link from the tool bar and paste in the full URL from the Youtube site into the dialogue box that pops up.
Your link will look like
[ *ignore* video=youtube;J9WW3QbOgQA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9WW3QbOgQA [/video] *without the "ignore"
rather than
[*ignore* YOUTUBE]J9WW3QbOgQA[/youtube]
Some folks have clearly worked this out for themselves and have been posting 'video links' rather than 'youtube tags' for a while, but if like me you are an idiot, then hopefully this will help. This method also makes video work on Android as well. I assume it does likewise on Apple.
Thanks
Thanks for both finding the problem and sorting it, smilo :)
I hadn't noticed it had evolved into a more permanent issue!