# TED videos preview shows just a thumbnail instead of the video itself like youtube

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [26. April 2016 um 09:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ted-videos-preview-shows-just-a-thumbnail-instead-of-the-video-itself-like-youtube/43235 "2016-04-26T09:48:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [28. April 2016 um 00:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ted-videos-preview-shows-just-a-thumbnail-instead-of-the-video-itself-like-youtube/43235/2 "2016-04-28T00:52:19Z")

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Sure, the preview thumbnail in this case can be somewhat improved to communicate that there is a video in play.

Youtube does the same thing.

I wonder if we should simply allow people to play videos and so on in the preview area, @eviltrout do you remember why we originally opted out of allowing that?

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