Many of us in the Renewing our Musical Share thread are noticing that when we post a link to a YouTube video, the link shows but there is no longer a thumbnail. I think it is happening in other threads, also. Some people are getting thumbnails, some are not. Is this a glitch in the system?
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It does depend on how the link is added.
If it’s in line with text, it will not show a thumbnail.
If it’s on its own line, it usually does.
Can you link to the thread?
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Okay I’m going to go try that with one of my posts as an experiment.
Here’s the thread for reference: https://forum.chronofhorse.com/t/renewing-our-musical-share-thread/767350/1070
Tried w/my post to put the link on its own line and also align it differently from the rest of the text and nope.
Awesome, thank you. I can see what you’re talking about–some of those definitely should pop with the preview.
I’ve noticed that link previews are kind of hit & miss. Even when I link several things all in one post in the same way, some will preview & some won’t.
I don’t know if it’s server load or link type or something actually at the link that’s blocking the preview for whatever reason (or just gremlins in the software coth uses here 
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To stop link preview you can include the link on a line with other text, or put three spaces ahead of the link on it’s own line. Totally understand you’re looking for a way to force preview, and I haven’t come across a way to do that. But if it’s any consolation, link preview has always been kind of finicky and inconsistent.
I’m sure @Moderator_1 will be along shortly with some ideas!
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I’ve been doing some research and it appears that YouTube may put limits on embedded video links to a given site. Other relatively small sites like ours were having similar issues. I’ll see if anyone came up with a solution!
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Test
The link generated when I clicked “share” then “copy link” worked. It does not have /watch in the link.
The one above that did not embed, I got from clicking “share” then expanded the options of where to share it, then clicked the option to copy the link at the top of the options that appear there.
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Take out the extra dots. Below is what the successful link looked like.
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That’s interesting. I have, on all sites, simply copied the URL and pasted it. I’ll play around with this way.
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I’ll give it a try, too.
Update: Yup, that works! Go to the “share” icon for YouTube, then copy the link through that instead of just copying it from the URL.
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Finally got it to work doing it that way. Now, all I have to do is remember how.
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