Democratic Underground now has a Video Forum!

[Skinner]

The Democratic Underground Administrators are pleased to announce our new Video Forum. Now you can watch all the latest political video in ONE PLACE, collected and posted by your fellow DU members.

Features of the Video Forum

1. Content is selected and posted by all the members of Democratic Underground. The combined efforts of the DU members will help insure that the content of the forum is always fresh, relevant, and up-to-date.

2. Videos are embedded right in the thread, so you don't have to leave Democratic Underground to watch.

3. Automatic duplicate checking, so videos with the same URL won't be posted over and over and over again.

4. Videos can be embedded into your DU Journals.

5. Recommend videos for the Greatest Page and the DU homepage.

6. Reply to video threads just like regular threads - discuss the videos with your friends.

Where to find the DU Video Forum

You can access the DU video forum from the Latest Page or the Lobby. Look for it below the Editorials & Other Articles forum.

Or, you can click this link to go straight there: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Enjoy!

Skinner, EarlG, and Elad
DU Administrators

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Very cool! One question though...

...what changes do you have to make to the YouTube code to make it work in DU?

On edit: I'm reading EarlG's post on how to do so now...

[Skinner]

3. You don't have to change anything.

Just paste the URL into the correct space when you start a thread in the Video Forum. That's all.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. But, that's WAY too hard!

[VC2]

2. nice!

saludos a todos

[ellacott]

5. Very Nice. I have a Request

Could there be some type of warning(acronym) if the contents of the video are not safe for work(nsfw).

I already clicked on a video that was not appropriate for work.

This would help many of us stay employed.

[hijinx87]

9. NO! not naughty video?

how can that be? how?!?!

like I said, what could go wrong?

[Skinner]

10. My guess is that the vast majority of videos will be safe for work.

But if it is a significant problem, we will consider something like you suggest.

[hijinx87]

6. video?

what could go wrong with that?

[msongs]

7. chat/threads about video making in general?

or just political videos and that's it?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Skinner]

11. Political videos (nt)

[Usrename]

14. Awsome addition!

[teach1st]

8. Oh, great...

...now I'll never be able to pull myself away from DU to get some work done.

Great idea! Thanks, DU!

[datadiva]

12. This is really great news.

Now we won't have to leave DU ever!

[RobertSeattle]

13. It will just simply be UNFAIR to Republicans...

...To record their own words and play it back over and over again.

[Zhade]

15. I kept running into non-working vids. Any idea why?

NT!

[Skinner]

18. I don't know.

They're all working for me. Are you behind a firewall or something?

[Zhade]

19. Ah, that might be it.

I'll try from home and see how it works.

[rosesaylavee]

16. What FUN

Thanks for another great forum.

[garthranzz]

17. Kudos - I hope this will include The Daily Show and Colbert as well as KO

Well done!

[eridani]

20. Good idea. Now for an encore--

What about a forum to post political artworks/educational or campaign materials? These could be links to the originals, or published directly.

[David Zephyr]

21. I love the video forum. It's a great tool for e-mailing, too.

You folks at the DU just hit another grand slam right out of the entire ball park with the video forum.

It's just the best.

Thank you. And, did I say, thank you?