We have many topics with YouTube videos from different users that have titles like Watch “XYZ” on YouTube Where do the superfluous “Watch” and “on YouTube” parts come from? However, I can’t replicate this. If I put a YouTube link into the title of the composer in order to automatically pull the vi…

If you have your forum installed on Android as a PWA you can share directly from youtube to the forum (without having to copy/paste the link) with the title “Watch XYZ on YouTube”

Do you have your site enabled to allow email in to create new topics? This language is used as the subject of an email when you click on the share button on the YouTube app and share video via email.

Have you asked those users how they are creating those topics?

Not yet, but will do. I thought there is an easy answer for it originating from the code, as we have the same “phenomenon” for at least 4 different users.

Thanks, ok so I have to automatically change the title either via API or with a plugin in a post-process.

Oh wow cc @falco I never would have guessed this – thanks @Steven !

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Nope, all email-related settings regarding topics/posting are disabled.

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