@jsonbecker Not sure why but I'm not seeing the video in my Micro.blog feed (I am seeing it when I go to your blog directly). Just me?
@crossingthethreshold Yes, seems like it, but it’s not great. Would have to use the blog’s URL, not the one for that particular post, and a couple of days later that could mean having people scrolling around to find the actual thing. Not ideal.
@crossingthethreshold I have no idea how this can be solved @help ? It’s not the same as posting your own videos, so the Premium account would not solve this, right ?
@maique @crossingthethreshold Right, I think the long-term solution is to automatically convert the YouTube embeds so that they work with Micro.blog somehow. The Micro.blog timeline strips out any script tags, as @jsonbecker said, to avoid security problems or other posts interfering with the timeline display.
@help personally, I think embeds should stay out of the timeline. It gunks it up and takes away from the reading expereince. The best experience for reading my blog is 1. the site 2. rss 3. micro.blog timeline 4. twitter syndicatd post. And that’s the way I like it.
I could maybe see an argument for having a little like “This post had embedded content and may be best viewed on the site” with link auto-added thing.
@help Thank you for the explanation. While I can see how it can make a post on the timeline appear truncated, and has done so with at least one post of mine, I am more in favor of leaving YouTube off the timeline (unless it can be done in an easy & tidy way?). Maybe as @jsonbecker suggested, a short sentence referencing that a video or such like is connected with the post?
@jsonbecker Ah, that's a shame. I imagine @manton did this after a lot of thought but (for those of us who like embeds) it would be nice if there were a supported way to embed video.
@crossingthethreshold I can imagine that certain users don't want their timeline littered with embeds but as I was saying in another reply to @jsonbecker, it'd be nice if there were a supported way. Some indication from MB that something has been stripped out would have been helpful, too, I think /cc @manton.
@jsonbecker Just saw that there'd been some more discussion on this with @help. I'd prefer embeds to be possible (or at least a setting) but if they are to be stripped out, there should definitely be something (even if's simply the link). The alternative is confusing for a user who doesn't know what HTML is 'safe'.
@pyrmont @jsonbecker @crossingthethreshold I’m testing a change to convert YouTube embeds into simple links in the timeline. It’ll be rolled out in the next day or so. (Embeds on your blog will continue to work as you expect with the full YouTube video inline.)