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I installed a new mod to the forum this morning: The mod is supposed to improve the way media (such as tweets and youtube videos) load when you view threads/posts here on PMBug. I have not used this mod before, so I don't know exactly what to expect, but I figured we could try it for a while and see if it makes life better or not. Let me know if you like it or if it causes any issues.
 
I see where pages (threads) load fast and don't bounce around now as media gets loaded. Embedded Youtube are loaded very fast. I'm see white space where tweets are supposed to load, but I'm not seeing the tweets actually load yet. I don't know if it's a caching issue that will get sorted or not. I'll ask the mod developer about it.
 
This mod has a configuration option (I just enabled it) to embed youtube videos using "enhanced privacy mode":

Embed videos & playlists - YouTube Help

You can add a YouTube video or playlist to a website or blog by embedding it.
support.google.com

If you use NoScript, like I do, you will need to trust javascript from youtube-nocookie.com to see embedded youtube videos.
 
hey Bug

I can no longer access the news page .....
Likely nothing to do with your recent tinkering and my old systems not keeping up
but if I dont tell you and it is fixable at your end, I dont get easy access to all those links

Thanks for everything
Rbl
 
* bump *

I just finished updating the media script. The developer for this script is very active. In the last four months since I first installed it, he rolled out 10-15 updates including enhancements to the way the script handles embeds from Amazon, Tumblr, YouTube, Mastadon and others.

Everything should work as expected, but please let me know if you notice something wonky in the way embedded media behaves now.
 
I updated the media mod this morning. This update supposedly added support for embedding (Meta's) Threads.
 
I updated the media mod this morning. Among other things, the update adds support for embedding tweets on the x.com domain.
 
I updated the media mod this morning hoping that it would fix the Facebook Reel embedding in @Unca Walt 's post: https://www.pmbug.com/threads/talk-about-a-girl-dying-in-her-heels-snicker.6299/

But it didn't work. The developer of the media mod says that Facebook has been inconsistent in their support for this up to now. Maybe they will fix it in the future.

Edit: It works on some browsers and not on others - it could be a browser extension interfering or Facebook just not playing nice.
 
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Jeez. The Faceplant people are living proof evolution can go in reverse.
 
I updated the media mod this morning. This update is supposed to incorporate "a number of performance and quality of life improvements for the lazy loader". Hopefully, that means pmbug pages that have a lot of tweets or videos in them load faster now (the page itself, not necessarily the tweets/videos/embedded content).
 
I updated the media mod this morning. This update fixed some bugs, cleaned up some code, changed the handling of amazon.com links (amazon stopped supporting image/product embeds) and added truthsocial.com.
 
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