# Help Finding Thread About Imbedding Youtube Videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473 "2026-04-22T03:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/7 "2026-04-22T17:29:17Z")
@Dr.Strangelove laid it out here: > [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/170): > > I’ve seen a few links to this thread from other threads, but the information is a bit scattershot, so I think it’s worth summarizing. The bug occurs because Discourse now sees a YouTube preview–that is, the inline video as compared to a bare link–as a “media item”. We don’t allow media items on this site for cost reasons, but in this case it’s a bug because the video is hosted elsewhere. And this is new behavior. Discourse takes a few seconds to convert a bare link into a preview. That is t… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473)._