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Is there a way to make a thread with unread posts a little more obvious? Like change the color of the thread, or of the "Unread Posts" note? I think that make it easier to see which threads have new posts in them.
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I think this is a swell idea. We'll see what Jubbers says.
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Love love love the "jump to 1st unread post" link, as the little box was hard to find on my ipad mini. My clumsy fingers thank you.
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The mother of Jubboiter, she say "Yes!"
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Videos should no longer autoplay. The video bbcode now uses HTML5. Let me know if that doesn't work. I hate autoplay.
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Autoplay didn't have many kind words to say about you, either.
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If this is a response to the Daily Show video that was autoplaying, it wasn't the forum's fault. I pasted the site's URL between the video tags (which is not how it's supposed to work) and it basically displayed the website in a small frame. On the original website, the video would autoplay, so whatever you did to the site to prevent that may not actually affect this particular issue. I can try it here.

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Well, now the video doesn't play at all. :?
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You broke it!
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It wasn't because of the Daily Show video. It was because of the video I posted on the "Updates to Logging in to Corona" thread. I couldn't stand the sound of dial-up internet.

:/ I guess the Daily Show doesn't like HTML5. I'll change it back to the old code. Just be forewarned when you venture to the "Updates" thread. It's loud.
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Changed back.

Also fixed your [video] tag above. You had it going to the webpage (which then was all embedded in there) rather than the video src (http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgi ... c1440fece1)
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I didn't realize you could just paste the embed code for videos. I thought it would have to be a direct link. It wouldn't bother me if autoplay were off - I just didn't know whether that was the reason the video up there wasn't playing.
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You can't just paste the embed code.

The [/code]

This creates:

<iframe width="640" height="415" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgi ... c1440fece1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

I had tried to replace that with

<video src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgi ... c1440fece1" width="640" height="415" controls></video>

This worked with the kickstarter video with the annoying dial-up audio autoplaying loudly that I embedded earlier, but I couldn't get it to work at all with the Daily Show video. Which bites. Because I can make <video> never autoplay, but I can't do that with <iframe>. This is my current frustration.
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Well, that sucks. :roll:

What originally threw me off in the URL that you posted was the /embed/ part, which is why I thought it was the the actual embed code.
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Post by Djack Zteelecock »

I always add 'embed' when I read aloud my fortune cookie fortunes, and people don't understand that, either, which is weird cause I thought everybody knew that joke.
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I always say "Enhance!" whenever I zoom in on a photo.
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