Awful renders a youtu.be link in [ url] tags as a video, whereas on desktop it's just a link
If you paste a raw youtu.be link in Awful, it translates to a [ url] link, not a [ video] tag
The combination of these two things leads to an Awful user thinking they made a working video embed, but if it's viewed on desktop it shows as just a link, and the poster has no idea. I'm not sure what the solution should be, maybe make Awful render a pasted youtu.be URL as a [ video] instead of a [ url]?
— Data Graham
nolanw
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3 years ago