Okay, I know this has been addressed more than once, and is probably "working as intended". But I really have to protest the current functionality of the auto- twitter&youtube -embed. There are just so many cases where I want to link to a tweet or a clip but don't want it to show inline in a post.
For example, every time I do an investigative post and want to cite a list of sources, I want to be able to put a bunch of links at the bottom, in a space-conscientious format, for people to click through to at their leisure, instead of having a dozen or more tweets, clips, and whatever else show up in the post.
Or if I'm making a conversational/argumentative post, and want to link to relevant but non-essential sources in context by making a word or words a hyperlink, without having tweets or large videos break up my sentence/paragraph.
These are not edge cases. These are things I do in rhythm while conversing every single day, and I often have to stop and think about different ways to cite my sources as a result.
I'm no programmer so maybe there's a reason this is not easy, but my preferred solution would be to simply have tags over-rule auto-embed functionality.
So:
- If someone uses the tweet/youtube/etc. tags correctly, great.
- If no tags are used, the auto-embed feature does its thing.
- If a tweet or youtube video or whatever else is placed inside the [url][/url] tags, the auto-embed functionality is skipped, and the link shows up like
this.
And for what it's worth, it's not just me. I see all the time other posters doing the same thing, winding up with [url=
]youtube videos[/url] or [url=
]tweets[/url] right smack dab in the middle of their sentences, like so.
