Topic: What do you think if Bitcointalk accepted videos? - page 3. (Read 591 times)

Sharing videos or uploading it DIY is always a best way to express interesting content that you see outside the forum. This is also very helpful on beginners & help board that is frequently asking for help and tutorials on different matters. Screenshot is good but having a screen record is more efficient to share easily what we are trying to express.

Although I really like the current version of the forum which is easy to load and refresh but having a feature to import or share video that you can watch here without the need to go on the source link is the best for me.

Yes for this if possible but make sure that video is not automatically played once browse just like on social media. 

Careful people will not carelessly click on link but if they do it, they accept risk.

Forum itself detect and block suspicious links but if a poster attach a Youtube video link, you are curious, don't mind about privacy, click on it to watch that video is not bad for you.

Virtual hero, what's this?

I guess this would be depending on the video content while if its a tutorial it should be here for a longer time maybe a year though depending on the cost for keeping it

I support Lucius statement on the restriction of forum members below member from it, I guess a maximum of 10mins might not be bad since after all its for tutorial but to be frank there should be some video content restriction because there are somethings some of us personally may not like to see.

To be frank not everybody may click no a link since majority of us here are privacy inclined while they use a virtual hero of themselves to access these sites but I guess if the video is uploaded here they might not need to go  through such since sometimes it may skip their mind to remember to watch later.

I love the idea of watching a video in the forum but I think adding a video to a thread or post should come with a whole lot of rules because if there are no rules to posting videos I believe some calibers of people would just see a video of there interest whether it has to do with the forum, bitcoin or not they will just post them here just as the social media, or they can even be people who will begin to promote there youtube channels and videos in the forum hence it could lead to a defeat in the initial idea of video posting here in the forum.

I think rules should be made on what videos are to be posted here, either from a certain platform or it should be of a certain category (like bitcoin related) before it should be posted here.

And from my perspective I think a 1 minute video is too long for a forum like this because it will some how look like social media reels, then it will definitely defeat it's concept, perhaps a 30 secs video is more likely to be okay by me. Or perhaps we have to go with Theymos idea of clicking and displaying via JavaScript into an embedded video, or more like a new tab, just to display the video.


@Lucuis got it all right. There should be a limitation on who can post a video in forum because if not so there will be a lot of abuse and I can smell that already. And for me I think member rank is quite easy to achieve for one to post a video hence it should be of senior members rank or full member+  to protect the interest of the forum.

If a link to a video is clickable, as it is now, forum members can click on it and watch the video and I don't feel annoying or uncomfortable by clicking to watch a video after reading a short description to introduce what that video is about.

If an image attached to a video, affects loading a page, a thread, I feel it is uncomfortable.

I don't see difference between clicking to watch a video and watching it directly on the forum so why do we need to watch it directly on the forum if it can bring some side effects.

I have nothing against that idea, because they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and adding a video to the forum in a quick and easy way might be a step in a positive direction. However, I think that such a feature should somehow be limited to at least the Member+ rank, because there should be no doubt that otherwise there will be those who will abuse such a feature.

On other forum there is an option to add videos directly to the post, so it might be good to check how it's done there.

I sometimes post a video in the following form, but it takes some time, and some users don't even realize that the link to the video is hidden behind the picture.

If you want to offer video hosting via talkimg, you are asking for trouble. If this is only about bitcointalk accepting videos, i.e. giving us the possibility to see videos without leaving a forum, then yes, I would really love to see it. I would love to see video embedded here the way images are, i.e. shown directly without necessity of clicking on any kind of icon.

Videos are increasingly part of our way of communicating. Although some of us like to watch more or fewer videos on the most varied topics, we have to agree that in many cases they are very useful.

In this sense, I thought: couldn't the forum also accept videos?
Of course we don't expect to see Oppenheimer - 3 hours of film - through the forum. However, short informative videos or tutorials could be interesting.

Does this make sense to you?
I spoke to theymos and he made the following observation:


What are your opinions? Should it be possible or not to watch videos via the forum?
If so, do you think it should be possible to share videos from any platform, or just from specific platforms? And what would be the maximum time a video should take to be available here?