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Offline CrazyT

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #270 on: February 22, 2012, 03:11:24 pm »
Don't wanna trouble you guys, but if i remember correctly, we once had a youtube embedding option. Since the website has gotten a great redesign, will the forum get some upgrades too?

Offline Happy Cat

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #271 on: February 22, 2012, 03:25:30 pm »
I'll try to get youtube videos working soon. just been busy.

Regarding forum software, SMF is the best free forum software there is, in terms of features. George would have to cough up the $$$ for better forum software.

Offline CrazyT

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #272 on: February 22, 2012, 04:04:31 pm »
Thanks for the quick reply. Take your time, you rock shadi ;)

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #273 on: February 22, 2012, 04:54:03 pm »
We are in talks about changing the back end of the site. We'll post more information during the next couple of months. Right now we will stick with SMF, but we probably won't be using it forever, no.

Offline Barry the Nomad

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #274 on: March 02, 2012, 07:32:38 am »
Nice. Not being able to embed youtube videos is shitty. Hopefully we upgrade soon so we can so what other forums do.

Offline Happy Cat

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #275 on: March 02, 2012, 01:16:37 pm »
Nice. Not being able to embed youtube videos is shitty. Hopefully we upgrade soon so we can so what other forums do.

SMF can do it, just not by default, it takes some code tweaking. I'll try to get it working sometime this weekend, but I'm really busy drawing thumbnails right now.. trying to come up with ideas for projects -.-;;; lol. overloaded, plus other homework.

but yeah, all the commercial forum solutions embed youtube videos by default, maybe SMF will sometime in the future, but as of now it doesn't.

Offline Happy Cat

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #276 on: March 07, 2012, 10:33:40 am »
we now have youtube videos again! Custom coded by myself, no need for installing a mod!

you can embed a youtube video by either hitting the youtube button on posting page, or by using the youtube tags [youtube][/youtube]

you can embed a video in two ways, and if it doesn't match in those two ways, the code will throw out an error... example

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrP6mHnX1Y[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrP6mHnX1Y[/youtube]
[youtube]http://google.com[/youtube]
[youtube]http://google.com[/youtube]
« Last Edit: March 07, 2012, 07:46:54 pm by ShadiNeko »

Offline Barry the Nomad

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #277 on: March 07, 2012, 10:46:29 am »
fantastic! thanks shadi!

Offline Happy Cat

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #278 on: March 07, 2012, 11:04:56 am »
Fuck, why did i post that, that's horrible victory music!

this is much more fitting

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSL7naH-8A[/youtube]

Offline SOUP

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #279 on: March 07, 2012, 12:16:28 pm »
Thanks for the fix Shadi :D

Offline Happy Cat

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #280 on: March 07, 2012, 07:45:20 pm »
Glad you guys are enjoying the youtube embeds. I needed a break from designing stuff so I decided I would mess around with javascript for a bit.

I tweaked the code a bit more, now you can embed a video in two ways, and if it doesn't match in those two ways, the code will throw out an error... example

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/NSkMNhc04SI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrP6mHnX1Y[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrP6mHnX1Y[/youtube]
[youtube]http://google.com[/youtube]
[youtube]http://google.com[/youtube]

Anyways, that was a fun little break. Suppose I should get back to my designing homework.
« Last Edit: March 07, 2012, 07:47:21 pm by ShadiNeko »

Offline Happy Cat

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Re: Forum technical issues topic
« Reply #281 on: January 10, 2013, 11:29:45 pm »
locking this topic as we now got a forum dedicated to this type of stuff. just leaving the topic here for archive purposes.