Anorax

I've been waiting for youtube embeds on this site since 2005

If IPB has some method of having partially concealed text (like "spoiler" tags that don't load their content immediately), could that be a default for YouTube embeds? If a link is posted that has a valid embed (youtube, soundcloud, etc.), a "spoilers" collapsible item could appear around the embed, letting forum users decide on whether or not to actually load the embed, thus speeding up initial page load times, as the extra resources are loaded manually.
Kind of like this.


real question is, do the resources within the [ spoiler] tag load with the page, or after the tag is opened?
Damn. Really, really got used to that ass-backwards layout over the past few years. Gotta conform to the standards now!
 

It's unfortunately an either/or thing, and I personally prefer the auto-embedding. In fact, I want to enable SoundCloud embedding as well - I think folks will get a lot of use out of it.
 
Ideally this would be a user preference, and users could choose to disable auto-embedding based on their personal preferences. Hopefully such functionality will eventually be available to us, but until then, my inclination is to leave auto-embedding enabled.
 
 
Unfortunately, this does not appear to be an option.
 
 
There's still a limit - we've bumped it up to 300.
 
It also seems that IPB just does private messages a bit differently, and that the conversion script may have had to make some guess/compromises based on differences between how vBulletin did things and how IPB does things.
 
 
Working on this as it is rather critical/core functionality. Shouldn't take too long!
 
 
That's been fixed as of today, though certain areas within vBulletin are still accessible. We won't be removing it completely until we see which areas are still getting hit by users/search engines/etc. and decide where best to redirect that traffic.
 
Thanks to all for chiming in with feedback & issues - please continue to do so!
 
And yes, I know change is rough for some of you. Takes me awhile to adapt as well. 2015 is going to bring still more change to the site, so it's not over. Hopefully, by the time the year is out, we'll be fully modernized & stable and you can then safely get used to things with the expectation of longer-term consistency. Until then, it's going to be a relatively bumpy ride, and your patience & tolerance for change is appreciated. We'll do everything we can to make sure issues are addressed, and (staff can vouch for me), this migration was something that chewed up a lot of my personal time and that I prepared for extensively.

Was this just an excuse to show off the new YouTube embedding with awesome music?

Now that we've switched over to Invision for our forum software, we're going to start making more use of the tools it provides.
One thing that I've always wanted to have for competitions was a calendar on the site where we can list relevant competition dates. Invision has a pretty great calendar application, so I've set one up.
http://ocremix.org/community/calendar/2-competitions/
If you're a competition runner, you can now add your event dates (such as start and stop date/times for mixing and voting stages, due dates, etc.) to the calendar. Right now I have it set up so that any event submitted to the competitions calendar requires a moderator approval. I'll be checking my moderator control panel regularly for stuff to approve, but if you don't see your event pop up after about a day, contact me and I'll see what I can do.
We might eventually put together a user group of the regular competition runners that can bypass moderation, but since this is new I want to keep an eye on things so that it doesn't get crazy.
If you have any questions, let me know.

look like you can like your own post.  very funny. Also there are two 'location field' on the profile. One who display below the avatar and the 2nd one that loook like a remnant of the old profile.