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Two Suggestions; Youtube and Post history
Topic Started: Apr 11 2014, 10:37 PM (1,195 Views)
Quarky
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Hi guys. There are two pain points that I've been having for a while. The biggest one is looking through people's post history (i.e. "List member's posts/topics"). It shows you a list of all the months and you click each month. However, if I'm looking for something, I can't remember when it was posted so I have to look through possibly every month til I find it. Also, it shows you all months regardless of whether they posted in that month, so I'm click through all the months to find a post and half of them are "No posts made this month".

I really liked the way it was done in IF way back when, where it just returned all the posts (which is still the case for members who are only a month old or less). You could have the best of both worlds and do that but be able to filter the results by month, forum, etc. That would be really cool.

My second suggestion is enabling full screen for embedded Youtube videos. The videos are pretty small by default so I often will try to watch it in full screen, but the button gets disabled after I click it so I always end up clicking the button to watch it on Youtube, which is mildly annoying cos it interrupts my video.

So yeah, those are my two suggestions. Thanks for reading! :)
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DaPizzaMan
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#TeamSupport

1. The first would be unrealistic. Your best shot would be this code: http://if.invisionfree.com/topic/5171109/1/
2. I will look into that tomorrow.
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If you know where the member posted, clicking the number of replies a topic has got will show a list of users who posted in the topic. You can then opt to view all posts by a single member within that topic.

Also, while this won't resolve the full screen issue, you can make YouTube videos bigger than the standard 250x250. Just use [flash=250,250]URL[/flash] and change the number sizes. I usually go for 700x420 myself, but 640x380 also works if the first is too big for a post.
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Quarky
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@DaPizzaMan: Thanks for the reply! Could you elaborate on why it would be unrealistic?

@Moonface: WOAH, I've been on Zeta for years and I did not know about that first thing! :o This is amazing and I'm gonna use the hell out of it now, though perhaps it should be made clearer. Also, I do make the videos bigger sometimes, but I can't make everyone do it. And I figured it would be bad for viewing on a mobile (which is why I assumed the video was small by default). (P.S. I love your sig!)
Edited by Quarky, Apr 12 2014, 12:10 AM.
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Nicolas
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"PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD."

For your second suggestion: ZetaBoards has no control over what options are available in an embedded flash video player - we don't use our own flash player, we embed what is available from the source site. Whether or not YouTube, in this case, decides to include a fullscreen option in its embedded video player is not something we can control.
That said, when I tested it the option does appear (see the attached screenshot). A quick Google search also suggested that appending the code &fs=1[1] will force the full screen option to appear.
For example, it might look like this:
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[flash=400,300]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEayQ0T-qA&fs=1[/flash]

[1] or ?fs=1 - if you're using another type of link to the video and there isn't already a question mark in the URL
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Quarky
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Dammit, Youtube! How hard could it be? Every embedded video ever on the Internet has a full screen option. Also, I tried the code and it didn't work D:Thanks, though!

Spoiler: click to toggle
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I agree that the current system is annoying, especially if a member has been registered for years and only made a couple posts. I will see what I can come up with. The IF way has some performance issues on members that have posted a large volume of posts and it can still be difficult to find what you are looking for.

I am not sure why YouTube would not have its fullscreen enabled. I will see if there is any option/setting we can add to the embed code.
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Quarky
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Yay! Thanks Brandon :)
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Skyon Archer
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Brandon, see this post where it details the need to add <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> to the object tag and allowfullscreen="true" to the embed tag.

In looking at the source code here, those are missing.

Also, the google developers site states that the addition of fs=1 does not always work, especially with the html5 player.
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Apr 18 2014, 10:58 AM
Brandon, see this post where it details the need to add <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> to the object tag and allowfullscreen="true" to the embed tag.

In looking at the source code here, those are missing.

Also, the google developers site states that the addition of fs=1 does not always work, especially with the html5 player.
A simple fix is to use Cory's code to embed YT videos and amend it to add the fullscreen option.

So essentially this -

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<script type="text/javascript">
$('#sbx a[rel]').addClass('shoutlink');

$('a[rel]:contains(youtube.com):not(a.shoutlink)').each(function () {
this.href = this.href.replace('watch?', '').replace('=', '/');
var href = $(this).attr('href');
$(this).replaceWith('<object width="250" height="250" data="' + href + '" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param value="never" name="AllowScriptAccess"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"><param value="' + href + '" name="movie"><param value="true" name="play"><param value="true" name="loop"><param value="high" name="quality"></object>');
});
</script>


Would instead be this -

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<script type="text/javascript">
$('#sbx a[rel]').addClass('shoutlink');
$('a[rel]:contains(youtube.com):not(a.shoutlink)').each(function () {
this.href = this.href.replace('watch?', '').replace('=', '/');
var href = $(this).attr('href');
$(this).replaceWith('<object width="600" height="400" data="' + href + '" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param value="never" name="AllowScriptAccess"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"><param value="' + href + '" name="movie"><param value="true" name="play"><param value="true" name="loop"><param value="high" name="quality"></object>');
});
</script>


Seems to work fine on my forum.
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@Lout, that is a temporary fix maybe. But I believe Skyon is getting at a more permanent fix.
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Absolutely, but updates to the software can often take a great deal of time as other things (rightly so) are prioritised.
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