How to post Youtube Shorts on the Forum

2 quick notes on posting YT videos, since YT has now introduced this infuriating “shorts” feature that messes up the embedding on our forum:

  1. before copying the link, while you are on YT, change the “shorts/” part of the URL: into “watch?v=”.

So instead of this:

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You want this:

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this should send you to a “normal youtube view” of the clip, from which you can copy the URL:

This should be the correct one for embedding.

  1. post only the url in its separate line (do not put spaces or other letters/symbols before and after):

some text

youtube address

some more text

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Another option for y’all that I’ve been doing:

(For the examples below, I added a space before “.com” and “.be” so the link would break and you can see the formatting)

Get the shorts link:

https://youtube .com/shorts/kepmfBXoew0?feature=share

Then replace “youtube.com/shorts/” with “.be/”:

https://youtu .be/kepmfBXoew0?feature=share

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Ooh much better thank you!!

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