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Hi all,
Thought I would give you a quick update on DU4, since we have a new page up and running. This page is called "Latest Videos" and it is a companion to the Latest and Greatest pages.
On DU4, whenever an OP contains a YouTube video -- no matter which forum you post it in -- it will appear on the Latest Videos page. The default view is chronological (newest first) but the page can also be sorted in other ways (by recs, replies, etc.)
This page will essentially replace the old Videos & Multimedia forum. That forum was originally created as a way to find video content in one place, but since you can post videos anywhere on the site, it doesn't exactly do a great job of capturing everything. The Latest Videos page automatically finds any video featured in an OP anywhere on the site, which makes it much more powerful.
This is still a work in progress but it's coming along nicely so I thought I would share.
PS. For anyone who missed the initial announcement about DU4, you can find it here.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,588 posts)It looks just great.
SheltieLover
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)😞
littlemissmartypants
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littlemissmartypants
(22,632 posts)You can search for it or read through the previous posts. Hopefully, you'll find the answer. Good luck!
And welcome to DU!
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Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)Thank you!
MiHale
(9,721 posts)Thanks for all the hard work.
littlemissmartypants
(22,632 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,632 posts)ItsjustMe
(11,230 posts)Dark Theme.
Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)Alliepoo
(2,215 posts)You ROCK, EarlG!!!!!! Love it!!
I want to see the cat loves corn video!!!
Donkees
(31,383 posts)and there were many complaints about posting music videos there, won't the front page become a mish-mash of lounge topics, cats and catastrophes (?)
EarlG
(21,945 posts)each forum on DU has a behind-the-scenes designation of "political" or "non-political" -- you can see the effect of this on the DU3 Latest page by changing the second "Show" (Relevance) drop-down menu in the black bar at the top of the page.
The Latest Videos page has this ability too, so you can simply switch between political and non-political if you like. Also, it's not programmed yet, but we should have the ability to filter by forum category, so if you wanted to see videos just from "Issue Forums" or "Culture Forums" you could do that.
For an even more fine-tuned approach, there's always the "Trash Forum" option.
FWIW, if I set the toggle to "Political" on the Latest Videos page right now, I get these as the top 20 threads:
- Right "Libertarians" Are Just Fascists
- New Grand Jury Activity In Trump Org Case Is Reminder That Investigations Are Ongoing
- White House holds news briefing
- Trump's Makeup
- Special interests & lobbyists UNITED AGAINST our reconciliation bill.
- Kevin McCarthy Literally Threatens Truth-Tellers - Rebel HQ
- Ron DeSantis Forgets Recordings Exist As He Gets Busted In Ridiculous Lie
- Why Do More Species Live Near the Equator?
- Carl Bean, singer of LGBT pride anthem I Was Born This Way, dies aged 77
- Anti-Vaxxers Learn Truth The Hard Way - Rebel HQ
- Being arrested for something you didn't do.
- Michael Moore says the middle class needs to vote for Donald Trump to overturn the elite system
- I think we can all empathize with this young student.
- Action Plan: Contact Burr on Infrastructure Bill, Hat tip to Tommymac!
- Stories from CNN about children and Covid.
- Dad threatened by anti-mask crowd says son has Covid-19 (CNN)
- George Monbiot Debunks Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans
- LIVE 11:20 AM: Biden and Labor Secretary Walsh honor labor unions
- LIVE: Speaker Pelosi holds weekly news briefing
- breaking . 7.1 eq hits Acapulco, Mexico City.
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken - June Carter, Johnny Cash & Family
- How many pixels is enough? It depends . . .
- Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
- Porcupine Tree - Time Flies
- Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotton
- On this day, September 8, 1944, a V-2 rocket came down in London for the first time.
- This Land Is Your Land - Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger & Family
- Roll Over Beethoven - Electric Light Orchestra
- Two Girls Found a Dog Who Was Nursing Puppies - So They Kept Coming Back Every Day
- SAW an interview with Paul McCartney , said this was his favorite song his guilty pleasure
- Middle-aged cockatoo doesn't know how to fly. This woman wants to change that.
- Inside Katharine Hepburn's Old Saybrook, CT home.
- Love You Too
- Cat Tries Corn on the Cob and Really Digs It
- This Is The Most Resilient Pittie In The World
- Alecia Beth Moore aka Pink has a birthday today.
- On this day, September 8, 1932, Patsy Cline was born.
- How dinosaurs really went extinct
- Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
- Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away - Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour August 1988
msongs
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(48,998 posts)Kali
(55,007 posts)also asked above.
is this just for you tube videos or do others show up, such as tweeted or vimeo or whatever?
all content? lounge type vids, music, etc?
EarlG
(21,945 posts)We currently have the ability to embed Vimeo videos on DU but I don't think it ever gets used. YouTube is obviously the most used service for video content by far.
Twitter videos cannot be embedded separately from a tweet (I've tried) and so the entire tweet has to be embedded. I supposed it might be technically possible to figure out the difference between a tweet with a video and one without a video and separate them accordingly. But for now, we're making this for YouTube videos only.
For more detail on question 2, see my answer to post 21 above.
Kali
(55,007 posts)should be helpful for everybody. I think I only post you tube, maybe rarely copy a tweet anyway. was just curious.
the filtering ability sounds really useful! good deal and thanks!
Percy
(721 posts)A beautiful page actually. It's easy on the eyes because of all the space around the video image and around the text. Very calm and nicely paced.
Looking forward to the new system!