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[Lods]

I'll take it to the staff meeting.
One of the problems we have is that there is so much more competition these days.
The Silvagni video was on facebook...it was just a simple share then to the various supporter groups.

[mateinone]

Yeah and you can share it from Facebook to here as well, in the same way as from Twitter.
Just need to add a plug in or (if it is easy to edit the BBCode) then write something to simply allow these shares.

With the club and all  the players on social media, it feels like we are behind if we are not there also.

[malo]

I'm all for this, just need to make it as easy as possible to share stuff like this.  I work in IT support.....all day...every day, but honestly I don't want  to be stuffing around with code out of work hours.....I've had enough of it by then !!

Make it easy & people will use it.

(I'd love to see a phone app as well....but that's a whole other story !)

[LP]

I'm happy to see a controlled forum upgrade as long as sharing and cross posting don't come with any caveats or hooks like Ads or contact sharing.

I've heard some sites get forced into Google, Facebook, etc, etc, requirements to share promotional material as part of the license to cross post. I'm assuming the big boys only enforce this if a site garnishes enough traffic.

A big plus for this forum is that you do not get bombarded with spam from joining, it would be nice to stay this way!

So while I agree I'd like to see some upgraded functionality, I understand the hooks that can come with it.

I also understand the extra effort required to manage and moderate a site that openly links video from Facebook or Twitter type services. So to the Mods I would say consider this very carefully.

[mateinone]

Ads and the likes are 'opt ins' and not something that the site needs to look at/consider at all.
Sharing of videos is something that can easily be done on most platforms.

With regards to the extra moderation, this is talking about small steps to allow integration of Social Media and as such I can't see any extra effort from a  moderation perspective.

Especially in the context of what I have here. Big Footy (for example) has a module to allow Twitter posts/media to be embedded.

Contact sharing is not really relevant to this either, not sure where you are coming from there.

[Thryleon]

Embedding of images and videos has been possible on many different forums for a long time.  I never really understood why, but given the limited resources CSC have to get the maintenance it requires, Ive been happy enough to just let it go.

Would be happy to see it if possible, but kudos to those who run this place and keep it going irrespective of what happens from here.

[Lods]

I'm an ignoramus when it comes to the technical side of this stuff...It's always "Give Spanner an e-mail" if we strike trouble...so how is what's being suggested different to being able to embed images and videos as we already do.

If I want to put an image or youtube video into a post we already have that capability.

Is it the fact that it enables us to put some of these up a bit quicker (without having to wait for them to appear on youtube etc) and from a wider range of sources?

[DJC]

I'm an ignoramus when it comes to the technical side of this stuff...

I thought this thread was going to be about deciphering Bolton's catchphrases  :

[cookie2]

I thought this thread was going to be about deciphering Bolton's catchphrases  :

Or his connections with Opus Dei?

Or more appropriately in his case Optus Dei.

[madbluboy]

I'm an ignoramus when it comes to the technical side of this stuff...It's always "Give Spanner an e-mail" if we strike trouble...so how is what's being suggested different to being able to embed images and videos as we already do.

If I want to put an image or youtube video into a post we already have that capability.

Is it the fact that it enables us to put some of these up a bit quicker (without having to wait for them to appear on youtube etc) and from a wider range of sources?

It would be good if we could embed Twitter posts.