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[–] Kruggles88@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this just a screenshot of the video thumbnail? Why not link to the actual video?

[–] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've fixed it. When you create a post, you can post a URL, but below it you can upload a thumbnail. I though I had to upload a thumbnail but when you do so, it replaces the video url. The more you know.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for fixing it.

Is there somewhere where we can report UI stuff like this? If you find it and make a post, I'll totally upvote you. It's messed with me in the past too.

[–] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to either find a similar on their github, or create a new issue and explain what would be the best solution. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

Filter out the request with labels to show the bugs, wanted feature, etc.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the github link.

Do you know if that link covers both the Lemmy instance software and the web UI? Or is the web UI elsewhere?

I just want to make sure if I'm putting a bug report in, it's in the right spot. I'm not all that familiar with Lemmy yet.

Edit: I think I'm going to put it under https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues which seems to be for the web UI. Thanks!

[–] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I love the fact that on Lemmy, you can edit your title... until too much people abuse it.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't speak for OP, but there's an annoying thing going on with links in that it doesn't always actually bring in a thumbnail when you do a link. So you think--oh, I'll just add my own thumbnail too! Then I'll have a link to the video with my custom thumbnail! But what that does is remove the video link while preserving the thumbnail.

It's one of those UI things that I guess hasn't been worked out. Or maybe it's something under the UI with Lemmy itself.

Either way, you get posts like this.

[–] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly THIS! I've now fixed the link

[–] Midi@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just see a screenshot too, it might be because we're on a different instance?

This is the link.

https://youtu.be/xz6aAI3shDY

[–] Anon819450514@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've fixed it. When you create a post, you can post a URL, but below it you can upload a thumbnail. I thought I had to upload a thumbnail but when you do so, it replaces the video url. The more you know.