[wp-forums] Video in forums. Thoughts?

[Christine Rondeau]

We also need to think about the content in the videos being searchable. We
would need accompanying content which could be descriptive enough allowing
search engines to find these videos.

I do find that videos do help, but only when these are very short. Say a 3
minute video explaining how to set a menu under appearance for example. And
I really, really dislike all the advertising at the beginning of each
video. If  minutes of your 3 minute video is spent pimping your company, I
don't want to hear that.

**Christine Rondeau
Bluelime Media
www.bluelimemedia.com
twitter: @bluelimemedia
skype: bluelimemedia


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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com>wrote:

> Well, videos would be helpful in some respects. *But* I'd be fairly
> restrictive to head off issues and abuse: only from plugin/theme devs, only
> in their slugged forums, only from devs who have been active for a time
> frame (6 months? year?).
>
> Also, for general use, videos could be posted by mods, in any area. If
> mods want to go to the trouble of producing videos; but I doubt I will.
>
> -- Mark
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Otto wrote:
>
> > What do you think about allowing inline-video in replies on the
> > forums? Specifically, same system we have for plugins now, where the
> > readme can have youtube/vimeo/wordpress.tv video links and having that
> > auto-inlined to the forum post?
> >
> > I've gotten this question a few times from various plugin/theme
> > authors saying they'd like to post video responses to questions.
> >
> > -Otto
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