# Movies you've seen recently (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [September 29, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906 "2014-09-29T21:53:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7837 "2023-11-06T02:54:12Z")

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Here:

> [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/170):
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> 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…

This is a good summary of what is now a very long thread about the subject.

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