I just tried to create a post to an ongoing thread, and got the error message “can’t imbed…in a post”. Is this specific to the poster, the forum, or something else?
Ongoing, well-known issue here for at least a year, maybe two years. It’s a Discourse bug.
There’s a stickied thread in Site Feeback on it:
The workaround that works for me:
- Collapse the Preview portion of the post composition window (done so by clicking on the button that looks like “<<” at the lower right corner of the window)
- Make sure that the YT link is on its own line in your post
- Do not try to add a YT link via editing once you’ve already made your post
- Do not try to edit your post after posting it with the YT link
Just add a slash /
to the end of the URL.
Thanks. I’ll try that next time.
The trick is to paste the link into the text box right before you post, and then hit the post button before the video loads in the preview window.
If you collapse/hide the preview window, as I describe above, you don’t need to worry about being quick enough on the “Reply” button.
I found that if you deleted the “htts” it will post.
Just a note, Site Feedback is the forum to talk about web site/forum software (Discourse) issues, and there’s a sticky addressing exactly your issue there.