TheFull9 Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 (edited) Not sure whether this is a known issue, or whether it's because I use chrome or my monitor is at 1920*1080, but the new YouTube videos always end up looking a bit off: Edited January 26, 2011 by CKinnerley Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 I believe it is the way that youtube provides the code that we pipe into the news feeds. It is rendered different on different screens and browsers. Firefox and webkit derived stuff tends to be okay, but I haven't tried safari/chrome mnyself. If I can tweak the code to improve things I will at the moment we have the option of either a bullet list of links or a video selection (as it currently is). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Just checked it all and YouTube have changed their output format to include stupidly huge images. I've tweaked the feed to drop the images from it as that's the only way to sort it properly at the moment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheFull9 Posted January 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Images are still showing up just as huge as ever to me unfortunately. Also I did upload a few new ones since the last update but mine aren't in there; then again I'm not sure how the system works, whether you just pick a few at a time for each news post or it's all automatic. Ta Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 YouTube content won't change until the next update at which point new posts will be in the updated format. Once news is posted it remains as-is until we edit it. The older posts will just have to remian slightly out of kink and disappear into the archive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheFull9 Posted January 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Ah, fair enough, didn't realise it wouldn't update retrospectively. Anyway, thanks for sorting that arnie. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheFull9 Posted December 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Any update at all on this? At the moment the YouTube subscriptions updates do just appear as one massive chunk of tiny font text, so I'm not sure anyone will actually be looking at them at all seeing as you have to lean right close and squint to even read anything, and actually picking out the stuff you want to watch is even trickier. I've noticed a couple of times when I've put other YT video URLs in to one of my own video's description boxes that the preview show in the news feed here is actually the correct size, so would there be any way of setting up the algorithm that generates the news articles on here to take advantage of that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted December 29, 2011 Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 I've set it to digest mode as we get so many new updates we can't have then all full size as otherwise it'd flood the news section of the website. I am tempted to turn off the video descriptions too to reduce the amount of text posted. There's no easy way really to automatically post videos. Some people type good descriptions for their videos, some people have a habit of filling the descriptions with lots of spammy junk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheFull9 Posted December 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2011 Given how ridiculous and long a lot of the descriptions are, I'd be inclined to agree with you. I suppose some sort of grid format would be the ideal thing, just the titles and a small preview image. But even in these days of everything on the internet having a 'Share on X, Y & Z' button attached to it, I'm sure that's far easier to say than it is to implement. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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