Checked in test messages here, as well as at seasteading.org, in both Firefox and Chrome. I don’t know if this is a Discourse bug, or a Chrome bug (since that’s where I get the option).
In Chrome, I get the option, when I right-click to paste a link, to “Paste as plain text” but it won’t do it. I have to manually remove the ‘https//’ to post a video url, without it going to the video player.
In Firefox, I don’t even get the option in the pull up menu. As a ‘user’, I am only reporting something I’ve found. It may not even be a Discourse issue.
Posting this message is via Chrome.
Example: (right-click, selected “Paste as plain text”
“Paste as plain text” only strips the formatting as text goes from Clipboard -> Destination. Given that the discourse editor window is a plaintext-only box, the command is no different from an ordinary Paste.
From Discourse’s point of view, you typed the URL of a youtube video, so that’s how it treats it.
If you want to force “raw” display of text, enclose it with ` characters (that’s the top left key on your keyboard)
That’s what the edited “Paste as plain text” looks like, except fewer back-slashes, which is why I showed my manually retracted, removing the ‘https://’ if it’s a “plain text” it should be stripped of the hot-link(?) and just show the web-address as a sequence of symbols (letters, punctuation, and numbers). It should show what I see in the address bar, rather than the video-player. That’s my understanding of the difference between a link as plain text and a link that displays the video player. If I’m wrong, that’s fine, and I’m learning. I just wanted to be sure, because I have a friend that almost always asks for the web-address, instead of the hot-linked video player, which is why I’ve even tried the ‘Paste as plain text’ option. In case it was a bug in Discourse, I wanted to report it.
There is no bug. The default behaviour in Discourse is for a youtube URL to be automatically converted to an embedded video. To create a hyperlink, type some text, highlight it and then click the link button
“Paste as plain text” is irrelevant, because the Discourse editor is not WYSIWYG - it’s all plaintext by default. Formatting is added by special sequences of characters, or automatically when certain types of link are detected.
A proper solution to this is to enclose the URL in < > like this <URL>
In this way, it will still be a proper link, but it won’t be embedded (oneboxed) video.
Thanks!