I updated my site today (from_version: c6782e8434f404f30de8cba054dfeac004663981), and since then have been having issues with youtube embedding. The first issue I noticed is that youtu.be links weren’t generating a onebox, while youtube.com links still worked. After playing around for a bit, I dis…

Thank you so much ! Your solution worked ! (appart for shorts…)

I don’t think there’s anything to do here on our end. All sites have SiteSetting.block_onebox_on_redirect false by default. Meta does so too, so most sites that don’t touch this setting would have youtu.be and /shorts resolving as per normal. I was concerned that either of these changes FIX: Add…

YouTube Shorts don’t embed on our site either, is there a setting I need to adjust to make it work?

Do you have an example SFW short you can paste here? If private, feel free to PM me.

Here’s one for example [This may be controversial… #sims4]

Ah it works here. Doesn’t work on my site https://forum.tardis.guide Link where someone posted it but it didn’t work: [image] What Are You Currently Playing? General / off topic video-game…

Do you have non-default values onebox settings? e.g. on /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=onebox

I don’t have any non-default onebox settings: [Screenshot from 2025-10-14 10-38-52] It looks like some shorts work on my site, but not all. For example, @nat ’s ‘The Twins’ short gets embedded properly, but @Shauny ’s does not. And, not sure if this is relevant, but another difference I noticed b…

[image] Carleas: WYSIWYG preview More accurately, that’s actually the composer preview (you’re in Markdown mode, not WYSIWYG).

Youtube issues after update

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nat (Natalie T) September 16, 2025, 1:51am 3

Thanks for the report — we’ll have a look.

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