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XenForo mentions (10)

• How to Create a Discussion Forum Using PHP and MySQL?

  XenForo (https://xenforo.com/) XenForo is a popular commercial forum software application that is widely used for creating and managing online discussion communities and forums. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Poll Results & Re-Opening the Subreddit

  For the longer term migration options, I would like to recommend we set up a Xenforo forum one last time. It would be quick and easy to do, it's a well designed and maintained solution that has all the technical features we need and works well for communities like this, as demonstrated by the Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity forums. Finally, this community will only be free of interference if we go to a place... Source: about 1 year ago

• Some forum software written in Rust

  Obviously forums aren't as popular as they used to be, so this topic might not be of interest to many. For folks that want to run a forum, they'd most certainly go with Discourse (Ruby), Flarum (PHP), Xenforo (PHP), NodeBB (Javascript), Nimforum (Nim) and maybe Casnode (Go). Source: over 1 year ago

• Best way to create a community website

  For something simple, I'd look into bbpress. For something more complex (but that can still integrate with WordPress, check out Xenforo (my favorite) or Vanilla. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Any forum/community dedicated to software and DevOps?

  Obligatory Lobsters[0] link. You may know it well already though. If you really need to scratch that itch, maybe start your own community based around those topics? I wouldn't build it from scratch though, and use something like XenForo[1]. The web needs more forums, there's not enough of them around! [0] https://lobste.rs/ [1] https://xenforo.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Embedly mentions (13)

• Automod remove videos less than 1second long?

  You can see what kinds of properties you can see for media - I fed the URL of a video into embed.ly as that document suggested, but none of the fields returned gave me a video length... You may want to try with one of the images posted to your sub and see what properties you get. Maybe there's something else in the metadata you can search for that is common across the short videos. Source: 7 months ago

• Embedding videos on reddit

  Some people report success with getting approved by https://embed.ly/, others report that service never responded to them. Source: 12 months ago

• free-for.dev

  Embed.ly — Provides APIs for embedding media in a webpage, responsive image scaling, extracting elements from a webpage. Free for up to 5,000 URLs/month at 15 requests/second. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• How to ban specific YouTube links?

  Use https://embed.ly to extract the MEDIA_AUTHoR or MEDIA_AUTHOR_URL from the link and add it to either of the 2 rules below. Source: over 1 year ago

• How does Reddit embed “unavailable” Youtube videos? (example included)

  If you pull up that script, it references "cdn.embedly.com", a third-party content delivery network. See their home page at https://embed.ly/. Source: about 2 years ago