Some post have a youtube video attached to it. Unfortunately I'm in China, where youtube is not accessible 😭, so I couldn't watch the videos though I really want to watch some....(or I need to risk using some vpns)
Bilibili is accessible in China (actually it's in China, and it's super popular among young people here)

In the future I might want to attach some videos here (:3JZ), so I'd like to know 🤔 :

  1. whether bilibili is accessible to you (when not in China)
  2. how can I attach a bilibili video under my post (new to the forum lol)

Thank you for your reply and guidance!

  • If embedding is supported for something just inserting the link on a new line is enough. If it isn't supported it will just function as a normal link.

bilibili is accessible and the videos work in EU(and I presume in NA as well). Whether the forum software support the embedding I don't know, but just posting a link should still work normally.

    Megalomaniak (:3JZ) Thank you for the information.
    😂 though I haven't found an "embed" button here, only found "upload" (or is it because I'm using celphone?)
    would like to know how to embed a youtube video... (some code may be similar? )

      If embedding is supported for something just inserting the link on a new line is enough. If it isn't supported it will just function as a normal link.

      I looked into this and while it looks like it will probably work, I want to hold off on it for this week and try to tackle it next weekend at the earliest. This is because we need to update the version of Flarum we are using to a beta version and right now I'm not keen on trying to do another update after what happened last time. I want do make sure everything is extra backed-up with a stable mirror running first. I will try to get the mirror running next weekend and can try updating on it first, and then if it works, I'll look at updating the main site.

      Another thing that will be nice with having a mirror of the forums setup is then I can start working on the new theme without impacting any of the functionality on the main site! 😎

      I'm not sure I like the idea of running beta software, but I think it's worth checking out anyhow.

      Megalomaniak Hence the mirrored one, that can be used to test things out first, i guess.

      That’s the idea! Then we can test stuff for awhile and once we have confirmed it is stable, everything works, etc, we could move it from the mirror to the main/real forum

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          TwistedTwigleg I have a sneaking suspicion this is worth bumping? Not so much about the bilibili plugin but the whole test mirror, probably time to start thinking about working on the new theme too. Though I guess I could try and create a override to use with stylus or such first.

              Megalomaniak Yeah, I forgot to jump on this and the new theme/mirror work has completely stalled. Unfortunately, for the next month or two I’m really strapped for time due to other life constraints (job, life stuff) and do not have time to work on this. I might be able to start working on it in late December or next year though, but… yeah, that will take a bit.

              What is unfortunate with the theme stuff is that making a theme with Flarium is not nearly as easy as with Vanilla and to test on a “live” forum you have to deploy it publicly to a software repository (I do not remember the name right off). You can test locally and I got it mostly working, but then life stuff got busy 😅

              But yeah - I need to take another look at this and see what I can do to get something going.

                  TwistedTwigleg I'll start on a stylus/userstyle then for now. At least it will give a usable prototype that could perhaps be used to pull snippets from for the 'proper' theme later. Also I do have a synology NAS here I could configure to run as a always-on server and see if I can't set up a flarum install on it. It's just that it's an old single core ARM synology system from 2013.

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