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This site's Youtube embed thumbnail proxy

Discussion in 'Forum software usage' started by Rake-GH, Oct 13, 2020.

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  1. Oct 13, 2020 #1
    Rake-GH

    Rake-GH Active Member

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    This forum proxies the Youtube thumbnail, which seriously reduces the load time of the page, and serves that instead of the embed.

    Here is an example:


    My website largely revolves around my Youtube channel and this feature would be very beneficial to me.

    I assume this is custom made by eva, as I haven't seen this anywhere else. I don't see any Xenforo addons that do this, but I'm curious if maybe there is or how I could do this as well.
     
  2. Oct 13, 2020 #2
    rdan

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  3. Oct 13, 2020 #3
    eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    Yes you can use an addon like @rdan posted. However, I am not using an addon but just custom coded Youtube embed and other video embeds supported by Xenforo all get the same treatment with a custom Youtube thumbnail loaded for page speed. Just saves worry about another addon :)

    yt-proxy-browser-source.png yt-proxy-thumbnails-01.png yt-proxy-thumbnails-02.png
     
  4. Oct 30, 2020 #4
    Inchmeal

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    I also apply this by custom coded Youtube embed which is supported by Xenforo.
     
  5. Oct 30, 2020 #5
    Rake-GH

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    Thank you for your replies!
     
  6. Jan 2, 2021 #6
    Brian Gimbli

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    I think you can quickly embed YouTube videos into a post or page using their URL. For YouTube you use the video URL from “Share this video” under the Share option.
     
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