Discourse updated yesterday. The only thing I can find in the patch notes that relates to youtube is that they apparently fixed youtube videos automatically starting back up when you scroll up (something that folks here have ben complaining about).
This change might be buried in a bug fix or a security fix.
I’m on your side with this one, but the Discourse folks prefer to keep things current.
I get it. If you require things to be updated to the latest versions, then you don’t have to go back and repeat tests for multiple versions. It makes development and support a lot easier. But it often does make things a royal pain for your users (us, in this case).
What makes life hard for us poor users is that there are so many dependencies, and the interoperability that we tend to take for granted is sometimes shockingly poor. In the case of my tablet example (involving Firefox for Android) I suddenly got a message one day that Discourse deemed my browser obsolete and no good, and wouldn’t even establish a connection. So I updated Firefox. Discourse worked again, but various other important functions on sites like CNN were suddenly broken. These features now work but it took months of several more Firefox updates to fix them. It’s a constant battle. And then you run into updates that will no longer install because your hardware is deemed not good enough.
With regard to YouTube, it’s notable that even those posters whose particular configuration lets them post the links say that they now can’t go back and edit anything in those posts, so something was definitely broken in a recent update.
I wonder if this is a YouTube thing rather than a Board thing. A few days ago my group tried to post one of our Yt videos to our website, just like we do ever week. No luck even with two of us working at it for 45 minutes
Trying Brave (browser)…
“An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.”
ETA: Just tried on another discourse board … and it works there.
I got the same error message. Hmmmm…maybe an April Fools Day prank by the hamsters?
‘We’ shouldn’t have renamed MPSIMS to MPSIMS!
FWIW,
The above was Chrome on an iPad. Video displayed but it wouldn’t let me ETA this info.
Trying another link.
A Wikipedia link about YouTube.
Can I edit it after the fact? Yes.
Another experiment: an Imgur gallery link with a video.
I can’t edit that post. So, two video media embeds which cause the “media link” error.
Here’s an Imgur gallery link with just an image.
Can I edit it? Yes.
So it seems like media links to video content is what is causing the symptoms.
In another thread I managed to post two youtube videos, but when went back in to edit the post, I got the error trying to save it.
Tried to post a Youtube vid this morning with zero luck. Not good. Somebody fix this mess.
ETA: I now can post and edit (at least in this instant). Android phone.
I can’t. Same error :-
“An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.”
Laptop, Win 10, Brave browser
… but if copy Susan’s link - it works !
Bizarre.
testing
nope, ain’t fixed yet for me either. Brave Browser v149.132, MacOS 10.14
Hmm…
same fail under MacOS 13.2 (Safari)…
… and also under Windows 64 / Edge…
… iOS 15.5 (safari) likewise…
^^^ this is a “youtu.be/” link rather than the “watch?” links I’ve been attempting…
