# YouTube previews broken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum Discussion\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373 "2021-02-17T17:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FireAppleRed](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/fireapplered/32/35838_2.png) [@FireAppleRed](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/FireAppleRed)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/1 "2021-02-17T17:44:52Z")
As title! As title! As title! As title! ---
**Author:** ![corfcorf](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/corfcorf/32/23294_2.png) [@corfcorf](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/corfcorf)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/2 "2021-02-17T17:49:44Z")
i had the same error message 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/apiento/32/658_2.png) [@Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Apiento)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/3 "2021-02-17T17:55:01Z")
Same here. I honestly don’t know what the problem is tbh. My dev is away in Costa Rico drinking mojitos watching monkeys so we might have to live with this for a little bit unless we have any shit hot developers on the firm : ) ---
**Author:** ![FireAppleRed](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/fireapplered/32/35838_2.png) [@FireAppleRed](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/FireAppleRed)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/4 "2021-02-17T18:06:55Z")
I wonder what those monkeys doing right now… \*wonders ---
**Author:** ![Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/apiento/32/658_2.png) [@Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Apiento)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/5 "2021-02-17T18:17:12Z")
Yes I just tried to update the firmware and that didn’t work so not sure. I’ll see if someone can help and like I say - if there’s any dynamite devs reading please get in touch… : ) ---
**Author:** ![FireAppleRed](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/fireapplered/32/35838_2.png) [@FireAppleRed](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/FireAppleRed)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/6 "2021-02-17T18:21:46Z")
Thanks, Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/apiento/32/658_2.png) [@Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Apiento)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/7 "2021-02-17T18:23:03Z")
I’ve filed a bug with YouTube too. I’m asking my old friend and dev for help but lets see. Hopefully we’ll get this fixed as it was working so well : ). ---
**Author:** ![chiz](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/chiz/32/20405_2.png) [@chiz](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/chiz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/8 "2021-02-17T21:44:02Z")
> **[Youtube videos onebox embedding stopped working](https://meta.discourse.org/t/youtube-videos-onebox-embedding-stopped-working/153748)** > > Since a few days (I’d say just after updating to Discourse 2.5 beta 5 - and continues on beta 6 - but it can well be a coincidence) embedding of YouTube videos works itermittently. After a few hours not working, it just restarts embedding OK. Since... @Apiento This looks to be discussing the same issue. I don’t know how to fix it but hope this is useful to someone that does. ---
**Author:** ![Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/apiento/32/658_2.png) [@Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Apiento)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/9 "2021-02-17T22:10:46Z")
Yeah I read that earlier but it didn’t help tbh. I think it might be beyond me. All the software is updated which was reported to fix the site but it hasn’t worked : ( We will just have to click on links till I can find a super smart developer to help me. ---
**Author:** ![Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/apiento/32/658_2.png) [@Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Apiento)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/10 "2021-02-18T11:46:47Z")
Yeah my current dev is on his hols - the old dev is too busy so we’re a bit stuck. I’ll ask another chap I know for a favour and see if he can help. ---
**Author:** ![MGG](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/mgg/32/155_2.png) [@MGG](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/MGG)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/11 "2021-02-19T01:07:45Z")
Workaround is if you use the embed link, but it’s a pain in the ass. Apparently YT doesn’t like people sharing too many videos… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2WyeEySgwps/maxresdefault.jpg "J.DeJohnette, C.Corea, P.Metheny, A.Braxton, L.Konitz, M.Vitous & others -full concert-") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WyeEySgwps) ---
**Author:** ![Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/apiento/32/658_2.png) [@Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Apiento)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/12 "2021-02-19T08:17:23Z")
Well let’s use the embed link. Only way. And yeah that’s balls but it works. : ) ---
**Author:** ![TheNightlark](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/thenightlark/32/2549_2.png) [@TheNightlark](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/TheNightlark)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/13 "2024-12-27T17:12:55Z")
Apologies if this has been solved elsewhere, and i understand that many of you do not have this problem, but… Youtube links simply will not display in a way that means i can click on them still. Was there a workaround for this? I am assuming there was and i missed it. I am on a desktop using chrome, is there some setting i need to change or something? It is fine on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/vlad/32/29381_2.png) [@Vlad](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Vlad)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/youtube-previews-broken/1373/14 "2024-12-27T17:40:21Z")
Clearing the browser cache seems to have helped some people, and I think signing out and back in to YouTube was also mentioned. If clearing the cache is a pain, you could try using Incognito mode (it’s Always There 🙂 ).