Embedding Stuff Into Ab

[AB Editor]

Afternoon!

We're thinking about adding a few more services to embed into the site - in the same way we do with YouTube.

What sites would you like us to try and make this possible for?

Examples would be: Flickr, Imgur, Spotify, Dictionary.com etc...

Not all will be possible, but throw some ideas out about what you'd like, and we'll try our best!

All the best,

AB Editor.

[NoMercy]

I wish it were possible to upload a photo straight from, say, your phone.

[AB Editor]

"So - why doesn't it?"

Because our system takes urls you enter, looks at them, and works out whether we can embed them or not.

We have to do this for each service/network/site as they all have different ways of presenting the video and identifying the video.

You're right there HC, that would be a good feature. I don't know if it's possible currently.

[AB Editor]

Sadly we're not able to let you upload direct from you phone, as then we'd be opening it up to hosting all sorts of imagery... Which wouldn't be ideal if someone put something naughty up.

When something is embedded from flickr for example - it's not technically hosted by AB, it's still provided by Flickr. This means we don't have the extra cost, or legal issues that come with hosting those images and video.

Hope that explains it a bit!

[RandyMarsh]

IGN and IMDB

[AB Editor]

Metacritic too maybe?

[pastafreak]

What about links?....click on a highlighted word in some text we've written,and it opens a Web page with a relevant article,picture...whatever.

[Answerprancer]

Xtube ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Naughty boy!!

[Answerprancer]

I haven't heard of that one Mamya ;-)

[Answerprancer]

...ah there it is (Australian site) :-)

[Answerprancer]

Flickr would be good. I've got loads of stuff there.

[Tuvok]

Slightly off topic, but thinking about rogue posts - is there some way to deal with them when the mods aren't on duty - so perhaps once they are reported they automatically get hidden until a mod is available to check, restore, or block them.

I'm just wondering as there was an obvious phishing one a few days ago for gmail passwords.

[hc4361]

Tuvok, do you mean hide them on your pc only or from everyone?

If every AB user had the power to hide posts there wouldn't be much left to read!

[Tuvok]

I did mean from general view.

The post I refered to was not your usual gogbledy gook, but had a linked youtube video, and a non google password reset link.

[Gromit]

I have reservations about this.

1. Too many whistles will make the site horrible.
- Part of ABs appeal is its simplicity and uncluttered appearance
2. May cause slow page loading and even more glitches
- It's bad enough with external adverts causing problems.
3. Audio, noise, sound effects are not good on a service, especially if some autoplay.


Perhaps any media can be behid a clickable pop-out box?

[Bathsheba]

I'm just popping in to say I haven't a clue what you're all on about, but good luck with it;)

Baths
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[AB Editor]

I'll have a chat with the techies and see what clever stuff we can do.

[Answerprancer]

Sorry this is a bit late and not so much about embedding.
Has the idea of thumbs up/down (or 'like/dislike') buttons ever been discussed here? I think that would be great and might reduce the workload on posts that would otherwise get marked for removal.