# Have links to YouTube been disabled?

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**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [April 1, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958 "2023-04-01T01:35:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/161 "2023-05-06T22:50:34Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Have we gotten any kind of consensus about speed having any actual effect?

I’m about 95% certain that the problem arises due to the detection/conversion/thumbnail step (and the fact that we disallow embedded media here). Speed is only important in that it’s an asynchronous process and if you paste a link quickly and then submit, it’s likely that the process has not finished yet.

I’m also about 95% certain that if you post, and the asynchronous process completes (which you can see happening dynamically), and then edit your post, it will then _not_ succeed, because the once the thumbnail gets cached, the converted URL comes up immediately rather than after a second or two.

If you need to edit your post, you can try one of the alternate URLs, like youtu.be. You can also put a “&t=0” at the end of the URL. Discourse isn’t that smart and it caches based on the exact text of the URL. In fact you can probably just append “&blah=blah” or whatever to confuse Discourse (haven’t tried it, but I think it’ll work). Just change it to something else every time you edit.

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