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  • Lucy you’ve got some splainin to do

    Posted by Jim Leonard on May 13, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    I couldn’t resist using that great line, Ricky Ricardo used when there was a problem on the “I Love Lucy” show, as my subject line.

    I found this problem with CreativeCow’s “My profile” page: I put in my links to YouTube as requested:

    https://youtu.be/fLzKL2ruGBs,
    https://youtu.be/Yd2Jzi3GGwE,
    https://youtu.be/T20l82o2t30

    Because these are Youtube’s “Share” links. I don’t know what they are smok’in over at YouTube, but youtu.be really?

    Your software changes them to:

    http:/fLzKL2ruGBs,
    https://Yd2Jzi3GGwE,
    https://T20l82o2t30

    Which will not work in this century.

    Soooo, CreativeCow.net has been around for many years and has thousands of members. I’m the First guy to notice this?

    Just Saying…

    Lenny – Production

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    Abraham Chaffin replied 11 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Abraham Chaffin

    May 13, 2015 at 6:42 pm

    Hello Jim,

    Take a look now. I believe it should be fixed. Thanks for pointing this out!

    Abraham

  • Jim Leonard

    May 14, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    Hi Abraham,

    Nope. It still looked the same when I went to edit it. You need to change the format from “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” to the “https://www.youtu.be” code. You can’t embed the “watch?v=” anymore. Some videos will not load because they are restricted to run “locally,” on YouTube.com domain only.

    Note: When I posted this to you, I listed the links using the old “watch?v=” format and the did not work on your site. Only the https://www.youtu.be links showed the video.

    “To Err is human. But to really screw things up, you need a computer.”

    Lenny – Production

  • Abraham Chaffin

    May 14, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    The YouTube reference URL there is simply a reference for people to know what to put into the field. YouTube still uses that URL format. The idea is to put the YouTube video code in there, not the embed code.

    Abraham

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