Paused videos resume when scrolling through pages

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

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Embedded YouTube videos stop playing when you scroll up

I have spent a lot of time this afternoon on this issue and I feel like this issue might not be fixable unless someone else has a brilliant idea. The problem is in the virtual DOM with prepending (scrolling up). In this case, you are adding a bunch of elements (posts) to the beginning of an array. When the virtual DOM does its diff, it notices the element with the youtube <iframe> is not in the same place, so it removes and re-adds it later. This causes the youtube player to refresh the iframe,…