Lemmy.ca Support / Questions

506 readers

13 users here now

Support / Questions specific to lemmy.ca.

For support / questions related to the lemmy software itself, go to [email protected]

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

Video or site preview not consistent? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by lorax to c/lemmy_ca_support

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Why is it that some communities show a video/site preview and some don’t? Is it an instance setting? Image example of one where it’s not working as you would expect.

top 13 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] TruckBC 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You appear to be using a 3rd party app to access lemmy.ca that I don't recognize. We can look at it if you let us know what you're using but to my knowledge no Lemmy app currently supports imbedded video. Lemmy's UI that you can access by going directly to Lemmy.ca that we run does not currently support video imbedding or previews.

[–] lorax 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m using wefwef on Safari. I’m not really expecting being able to watch the video but more of a preview/image of it like you would a website? It seems to work in some communities and not others. I’ll reach out to the wefwef devs to see if this is a bug or if it’s an instance/community setting.

[–] TruckBC 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems to be working fine on our local UI so I'm assuming it's on wefwef's end.

[–] lorax 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I use a browser to navigate to https://lemmy.world/c/listentothis I don’t see thumbnails either though. Hmm.

[–] TruckBC 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you try making a new video link post? The image service was having some issues before moving to the new server.

[–] lorax 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mine seems to work! https://lemmy.ca/post/1111317

[–] TruckBC 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it work in the app as well?

If it does we will attribute it to an issue that's been resolved.

[–] lorax 1 points 2 years ago

Yes it does! Thanks :)

[–] anonymoose 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry to briefly go on a tangent away from the discussion, but I used to love your contributions on reddit, so it's very heartening to see you active on here. Makes it feel more like home 🤘

[–] TruckBC 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks!

I won't miss the drama on Reddit

[–] SourCreamAndGarlic 2 points 2 years ago

Me neither.

[–] pierrot_la_lune_25 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Using the "native" web UI, I get the same output from lemmy.ca and lemmy.world. It's not an embedded player, but you do seem to get a preview of the YT video. I do realize that you are probably asking about an IOS / Android app, but I assume that this is up to the app developer. Kind of like for Reddit, some apps would preview more image/GIF boards.

lemmy.ca listentothis frontpage

[–] lorax 2 points 2 years ago

I’m using wefwef on safari , which isn’t a mobile app but a progressive web app (PWA). What I don’t understand is that I do see the previews in some communities, and not in others. I’ll reach out to the web dev see if this is a bug, or as expected. Thanks! :)