How to get YouTube tag working at JoltCountry

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How to get YouTube tag working at JoltCountry

Post by Garth's Equipment Shop »

You may have noticed the YouTube bbcode seems broken here on JoltCountry BBS. Well I'm happy to report it is working just fine. What happened was Youtube changed the format of it's autogenerated share video link very slightly, enough to break all old phpBB forum's youtube tags. But the old link style will still work. Simply remove the odd period/dot that gets inserted in the word "youtu.be" and also change https to http if it isn't already. So your tag should look like this:

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or if you don't see images then this:

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[youtube]http://youtube/watch?v=89yh3vYs-zo[/youtube]
Ok, actually it is the url that appears in the address bar when your on the youtube page with the video you want to embed. Only difference is the https which should be changed to http for the youtube tag here. So easiest way is to copy paste the address from the url instead of using the share link below the video. And just remove the s.
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Post by Ice Cream Jonsey »

Well.... argh. I should fix that.
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