Automatic Media Links

[Stiggosaurus]

Is there a way to prevent the forum software from automatically turning my first five YouTube links into media tags? It'd be really helpful to see a long list of YouTube links in my thread here, rather than the top of each post being taken up by YouTube previews.

Thanks!

 

[Famine]

Sure. There's a couple of options.

The commonest is to create a hyperlink. With your first video as an example, give it a title and link the title like this:
[url=https://youtu.be/_BrRk4bsne0]Driving School Test B-1[/url]

That will result in this:
Driving School Test B-1


The other is to insert junk code directly into the URL, to break up what the software would recognise as a media link. This is exceptionally hard to demonstrate, as the software will parse the tags, but I'll give it a bash:
ht[i][/i]tps://you[i][/i]tu.be/_BrRk4bsne0

That will result in this:
https://youtu.be/_BrRk4bsne0


You could, of course, combine the two, by putting in junk code to the hyperlink. Then the hyperlink is the link:
[url=https://youtu.be/_BrRk4bsne0]ht[i][/i]tps://you[i][/i]tu.be/_BrRk4bsne0[/url]

Which gives this:
https://youtu.be/_BrRk4bsne0

 

[Stiggosaurus]

Sure. There's a couple of options.

The commonest is to create a hyperlink. With your first video as an example, give it a title and link the title like this:
Driving School Test B-1

That will result in this:
Driving School Test B-1


The other is to insert junk code directly into the URL, to break up what the software would recognise as a media link. This is exceptionally hard to demonstrate, as the software will parse the tags, but I'll give it a bash:
https://youtu.be/_BrRk4bsne0

That will result in this:



You could, of course, combine the two, by putting in junk code to the hyperlink. Then the hyperlink is the link:
https://youtu.be/_BrRk4bsne0

Which gives this:

Perfect! The URL syntax is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

 

[Famine]

Perfect! The URL syntax is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

And you'll notice that as soon as you quote it, the forum software re-processes the junk tags