How to Discourse: tips and tricks

YouTube links

Same as above, just drop the link with no other character on the line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I386M2XP6sg

If there’s at least a character it gives
_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I386M2XP6sg

Time tag

You can make your link point on a particular time of the video by adding a time tag such as &t=60s or t=1m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wmHScokrE&t=110s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wmHScokrE&t=2m


Youtu . be links

They also work:

http://youtu.be/8WL-NNtNE3c


YouTube shorts

Beware of YT shorts links, their integration in Discourse is still not working very well…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P3_Zs5bo1eo

is displayed like this:

It’s better IMO to grab the ID part (P3_Zs5bo1eo) and put https://youtu.be/ before
(in other words replace be.com/shorts with .be)

https://youtu.be/P3_Zs5bo1eo

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