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You have to substitute the www with the dl! Not add it. I replied to your post in the other thread with a altered link.
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Good info. Thanks men.
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An interesting development on Photobucket image hosting, and potentially good news (at least in the short term) for those like Killratio and Raceguy who have created large threads with many Photobucket-hosted images documenting their hard work: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/ ... Trust.html. :)

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Thanks Nick, I'll take a look at this.

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Embedding a Youtube video: UPDATE

Just a little update on embedding YouTube videos.

As the A2A website and forum now uses the "https" protocol, embedded YouTube videos must now use the same format:

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9S9pNC_Sc[/youtube]
It's still necessary to use the full YouTube page link from the browser address bar and not the shortened "https://youtu.be/" version. The initial post in this thread has been updated to reflect this change.

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Nick - A2A wrote: 16 Jun 2018, 05:53 Embedding a Youtube video: UPDATE

Just a little update on embedding YouTube videos.

As the A2A website and forum now uses the "https" protocol, embedded YouTube videos must now use the same format:

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9S9pNC_Sc[/youtube]
It's still necessary to use the full YouTube page link from the browser address bar and not the shortened "https://youtu.be/" version. The initial post in this thread has been updated to reflect this change.

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Hello Nick and Mark,

After the update, the forum does not seem to parse the youtube open and close tags anymore. Could you please advise how to share youtube videos?
I just posted the video url with https as it is, in may latest post and it is displayed as a url.

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Hi Vladi,

Seems to be working okay here. I just edited the post you linked above with an embedded YouTube link formatted in exactly the same way as before.

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbNn6TVn_M[/youtube]
Can you see that vid in your post now, and if not, which browser are you using?

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Hello Nick,

Thank you for making this test for me! In Chrome 73.0.3683.75, I see your edit and the video as it should be if the tags are used. However I do not see it at all under Firefox 65.0.2.
I see only the line "Edit: added by Nick". I have disabled the popup blocker, restarted the browser, cleared saved data, cookies and even flushed my dns.
Apparently it is a browser issue with Firefox since I seem not have any issue in Chrome. Will keep on testing, very strange! :shock:

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Hello.
Has Dropbox changed things again? None of my DB images are showing but download links are working fine. This just started a couple days ago.

This is the code I've been using for a long time. I can paste the link into my web browser and it loads image just fine.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/8n901ynztmkftxi/FireDancerP3D.jpg?raw=1
However, if I put that same link in using the Insert Image option I get this

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It looks fine to me...is this not what you're seeing on your end?

I'm using Flickr and Chrome...nice shot btw! 8)

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Hmm, no it just shows a small image icon. Must be my browser then. Thanks for the reply. I'll look into it on my end.

Thanks, I like it too 8)
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Ok, so I checked from my Android and image links work. I then checked on Edge and links work. So what has changed with Chrome that Dropbox image links have stopped working? More investigating I guess :(

EDIT:
That investigation went fast. The culprit was DuckDuckGo on Google Chrome. I white listed A2A and all is good.


Sorry, another edit. I also white listed Dropbox.

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