We rolled out a change that changes how embedding works. Previously if you wanted to link to a video or picture, like this, it stuck the embed right in the middle of your sentence. We fixed that.
You can still embed stuff by putting the URL as part of your post, but now you can text link to stuff too.
http://41.media.tumblr.com/c23dae011ff4e8b5839ca6a13a3724fe/tumblr_n7ga730qFJ1rider7o1_1280.jpg
You...you listened to me. Thank you.
Nice job
It works well, but I noticed an old post of mine from the old GD was broken by this. It was a link to a Gist on Github, just pasted into the post like so: http://www.google.com
I had to change it to use the brackets and parentheses to hyperlink it like this. I'm not sure if that's just a problem with old GD posts, or if a new thread would have the same affect. But, if the problem still exists, my suggestion would be to add some sort of check to stray links, before assuming that they're something that can be embedded, so they don't just get turned into a blank space. Maybe check the file extension from the URL (i.e. .jpg, .png, etc can be embeded, but .html or a lack of extension can not) This can be done in the JavaScript for the page, directly in the function that replaces the links now.
Hey, so...now embedding doesn't work for Docs at all. It's cool that you added the optional functionality, but you also removed the former permanent functionality.
Are you able to include both aspects of the experience, or does one nullify the other?
are you responsible for those horrible images at the start of thread titles that ruin the flow of the page?
