changing a link to a YouTube video does not change the video

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  • braintrainnerd
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2017
    • 228
    • 5.0.x

    changing a link to a YouTube video does not change the video

    Hi all.

    When I edit a topic that includes a video shared from YouTube, only the title of the new video is updated, but the thumbnail is still that of the old video. Also, when playing the video in the page of the topic, the old video is still played.

    It looks like clicking "remove link", and then adding a new link to a different video only updates the new video's title and description, not the actual video itself.

    The only solution (and a very bad one), is to delete the topic altogether and create a new topic with a new link to the new video. However, the old topic will be lost from the google index and will lose it's search ranking. Also, the new topic will be treated as a fresh new page by the google algorithm and thus will need to wait to be indexed and will start at the bottom of search rankings.

    Is there a solution to this?

    Thank you.
    Last edited by braintrainnerd; Thu 19 Jul '18, 4:09am.
  • Wayne Luke
    vBulletin Technical Support Lead
    • Aug 2000
    • 74154

    #2
    The old video is retained after a page refresh?

    Actually does seem to be a bug.
    Translations provided by Google.

    Wayne Luke
    The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
    vBulletin 5 API

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    • Wayne Luke
      vBulletin Technical Support Lead
      • Aug 2000
      • 74154

      #3
      Translations provided by Google.

      Wayne Luke
      The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
      vBulletin 5 API

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      • braintrainnerd
        braintrainnerd commented
        Editing a comment
        Thanks Wayne. Robin Hood is a poor substitute for Mission Impossible Fallout.

      • Wayne Luke
        Wayne Luke commented
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        Just picked two movie trailers on a semi-random basis.

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