Suggestion: Updated Youtube URL Details in User Control Panel

[El Héroe Oscuro]

This is the current state of the Youtube URL bar in the User Control panel, and personally, due to the excessive questions regarding how to put a Youtube video into your personal profile, I feel like maybe we should update the description for it? Alone, it's very vague and causes a lot of problems for new people trying to figure out how to successfully make it work (including myself when I came back, making me even post a question in Q&A to fix it)

For instance, the new version could say:
"Paste the part of the Youtube video link after v= you want to be embed here.
e.g. Sp9xfm6SSTI of https://www.youtu.be/watch?v=Sp9xfM6SSTI"

All and all I feel like that could be a quick, efficient fix and an elimination to a lot of questions about how to put Youtube videos in their profiles. Cheers [:

Side note: fix that URL and watch the video if you want your daily does of stupidity for the day

 

[Hiatus]

Yep, updating the description is definitely needed. What would be even better is if we could just have direct linking again, somehow. That way, nobody should have any sort of confusion at all; all you'd have to do is copy and paste, and you're set. n_n;; Another thing I'd like to add is, if possible, we should extend our video embedding support and let people use things from all over the web, and not just YouTube.

 

[Nick]

We upgraded to a patched version of vBulletin due to a security exploit and it overwrote a lot of changes, including the YouTube URL parser for profiles, that I haven't yet fixed up.

is that the upgrade you were talking about that you said you needed to upgrade to before any real work on 2.0 was done or something like that?

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

Going off of Nick, would it also revert the Youtube coding back to the original coding, or are we keeping this new format of coding?