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[Simon Paynton]

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[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Simon and Unseen – I can view the link without any problems. I am viewing on a Windows 11 laptop (Winver 25H2) and using Firefox. The Frog protest against ICE in Portland.

[Simon Paynton]

@Reg – I can view the link, but there’s no “youtube” image on the AZ page.

[PopeBeanie]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Following this post are several posts discussing the confusion with posting shorts successfully, that will include a copy of the thumbnail. I finally discovered that, after one pastes the short’s URL, all you have to do is change the word “shorts” in the URL to the letter “v”!

I also put this tip in the TIPS group, so if youtube ever changes how this trick works, please let me know and I will update how this tip can or can’t be made to work properly. Sorry to complicate this before we figured out the simple solution… You can ignore all complications mentioned in the posts that follow, and just jump to post #59142

Unseen wrote:

Why won’t this display? Any ideas?

I’ve been experimenting with youtube shorts, which is why you’ll see the “was#x#” underneath each of my video shorts, in case I need to change the dimensions to fit on different screens.

unedited size 384×682

The only way to paste a link to a short (that I know of) so that it includes a thumbnail is to copy the “embed code” instead of the straight link to the video. (The embed option is right underneath the other link-to options. BTW Unseen, I really was clueless about this the first time you asked about the missing thumbnails.)

Unfortunately, since the embed code is in html, it seems that wordpress only gives moderators the right to post html that works. (Am I right, Reg?) Apparently html is required in order for the link in it to retrieve a thumbnail for a short. I had to use AI to help me figure it out.

I was going to post a short or two on the cute/cool costumes (or cosplay?) in Portland! So I grabbed the embed link from the original short in Unseen’s post and pasted it here. I used the embed code at its original size, so please let me know if it’s too large on any device you watch it with.

Portland’s brilliant for starting these cute rebellions against the dreadful, authoritarian-like incitements! I think other cities are starting to follow this trend, too.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by PopeBeanie. Reason: added IMPORTANT UPDATE

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I am not great at website dev. but I did a little digging.

To include a thumbnail, you have to use the embed code instead of the standard YouTube link, since only the HTML embed triggers the thumbnail preview. Unfortunately, WordPress restricts HTML for non-moderators, so only moderators can post embeds that actually render the video.

For technical clarity ‘unedited size 384×682’ refers to ‘unedited vertical short size (384×682)’.

Verticals – if you have not come across them, are movies or video shorts shot and formatted for smartphones (mostly). Instead of the traditional 16:9 landscape ratio, they’re typically 9:16, matching the way people naturally hold their phones. They are ‘huge’ in Asia. China has entire streaming platforms commissioning vertical-only serialized dramas. These run 1–3 minutes per episode, with high production value and real story arcs. Some even get cinematic releases later, reformatted for 16:9. The audience there is massive, commuters watching full seasons on the subway. Of course they have 5.5G wifi, even on the underground Metro 🙂

Anyway , I guess ( as in I am guessing) watching verticals on a PC is a bit like the old PC-vs-Mac divide: technically possible on both, but the experience is clearly optimized for one side (phones), while the other feels like it’s forcing the issue.

[Unseen]

The original video won’t give me an embed code, so I’m trying the code it offered me to use for sharing. Let’s see if it works any better:
https://youtube.com/shorts/lVpaaTCAetw?si=tvUc_p27IUIlBFys

Well, not for me.

I’m running ChromeOS, but since links I put up (normal ones, not shorts or verticals) tend to work okay, the issue seems intermittent and/or random.

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by Unseen.

[Unseen]

PopeBeanie wrote:

I’ve been experimenting with youtube shorts, which is why you’ll see the “was#x#” underneath each of my video shorts, in case I need to change the dimensions to fit on different screens.

I looked underneath the video and didn’t see that code. Am I missing something?

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

was414x736 = viewed on an iphone.

[PopeBeanie]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I finally discovered that, after pasting short’s URL, all you have to do is change the word “shorts” in the URL to the letter “v“!

I also put this tip in the TIPS group, so if youtube ever changes how this trick works, please let me know and I will update how this tip can or can’t be made to work properly.

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Unseen wrote:

The original video won’t give me an embed code […]

You should be able to copy the embed code of a short video on Mac or PC by pressing Ctrl-click on the video, and then select “Copy embed code”. But you still won’t be able to use it in a post here without moderator rights, because the page has to be able to accept it as html.

I’ll make the others that you posted work, with your permission.

The other “code” I mentioned — sorry, I often say useless stuff — is what I add underneath each short video, just for my own benefit. What it looks like is what Reg showed, above: “was414x736”, which are the width and height dimensions of the video in its original format.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by PopeBeanie. Reason: added IMPORTANT UPDATE

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This singer’s even in tune.
And that second line, “Oww!”.

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