• Kruggles88@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      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 though I had to upload a thumbnail but when you do so, it replaces the video url. The more you know.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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            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!

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        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.