What gives with the site?

[SonicG]

The Discord format is terrible for having discussions anyhow, and probably everywhere in the West, or at least Europe, Australia, Japan etc. will require proof of age via some kind of ID verification for a lot of websites.

[Grizzly]

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platfo ... ter-thiel/

Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

[BenDhyan]

What gives, the board has a new old look and appears to be working well....

[Grizzly]

Whad you do BEN!!!

[BenDhyan]

Faith Griz, but I must admit I did so want to win the last poster thread too, you can't win em all.

[stickdog99]

This forum's {youtube} youtube link ID {/youtube} functionality doesn't work anymore.

(Note: I changed the bracket type from [] to {}, so it would display in the above description.)

According to Genesis:

The mystery of the blank space comes down to a major web security rule called Mixed Content, and it all triggers because of one tiny letter: s.

Your forum is almost certainly running on a secure connection (https://), but the code generating that embedded YouTube video is trying to load over an insecure connection (http://).

Why it breaks

Modern web browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) enforce strict security blocks against "Mixed Content." If a secure webpage tries to embed an insecure iframe, the browser treats it as a vulnerability and completely blocks the insecure element from rendering. It doesn't give an error on the page; it just leaves a blank space.

Furthermore, YouTube itself heavily enforces HTTPS. When your iframe requests the http:// version, YouTube tries to redirect it to https://, but the browser has already blocked the initial request.

How to fix it

You need to update the custom BBCode template in your phpBB Administration Control Panel (ACP).

1.

Log into the phpBB ACP
Admin Access Required
Go to your forum's administration panel and log in.

2.

Navigate to BBCodes
Posting Tab
Click on the Posting tab at the top, then select BBCodes from the left-hand menu.

3.

Edit the [youtube] BBCode
Find your [youtube] tag in the list and click Edit (the green gear or pencil icon next to it).

4.

Update the HTML Replacement
Look at the HTML replacement box. Change the http in the YouTube URL to https. It should look like this:

HTML

5.

Save and Clear Cache
Click Submit to save changes. Then go back to the main ACP dashboard tab and click Purge the cache so the forum forces old posts to reload with the updated layout.


Once you update it to https://, the browser will trust the connection, and your embedded videos will instantly start showing up again!

[Laodicean]

What gives, the board has a new old look and appears to be working well....

All the custom board style templates are gone.

[Laodicean]

This forum's {youtube} youtube link ID {/youtube} functionality doesn't work anymore.

(Note: I changed the bracket type from [] to {}, so it would display in the above description.)

According to Genesis:

The mystery of the blank space comes down to a major web security rule called Mixed Content, and it all triggers because of one tiny letter: s.

Your forum is almost certainly running on a secure connection (https://), but the code generating that embedded YouTube video is trying to load over an insecure connection (http://).

Why it breaks

Modern web browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) enforce strict security blocks against "Mixed Content." If a secure webpage tries to embed an insecure iframe, the browser treats it as a vulnerability and completely blocks the insecure element from rendering. It doesn't give an error on the page; it just leaves a blank space.

Furthermore, YouTube itself heavily enforces HTTPS. When your iframe requests the http:// version, YouTube tries to redirect it to https://, but the browser has already blocked the initial request.

How to fix it

You need to update the custom BBCode template in your phpBB Administration Control Panel (ACP).

1.

Log into the phpBB ACP
Admin Access Required
Go to your forum's administration panel and log in.

2.

Navigate to BBCodes
Posting Tab
Click on the Posting tab at the top, then select BBCodes from the left-hand menu.

3.

Edit the [youtube] BBCode
Find your [youtube] tag in the list and click Edit (the green gear or pencil icon next to it).

4.

Update the HTML Replacement
Look at the HTML replacement box. Change the http in the YouTube URL to https. It should look like this:

HTML

5.

Save and Clear Cache
Click Submit to save changes. Then go back to the main ACP dashboard tab and click Purge the cache so the forum forces old posts to reload with the updated layout.


Once you update it to https://, the browser will trust the connection, and your embedded videos will instantly start showing up again!

Me in the Music for 2026 thread:

https://giphy.com/gifs/awkward-pulp-fic ... hT1O4sxpi8

Embed of images broke too.

[Grizzly]

weird, I had to switch browser's to log in...

[Elihu]

the appearance of this new un-democratically-voted-on visual environment sux, imo. is the old gone? fer good? Gotta be able to see people's videos pre-click instead of a link. trashes the vibe. imo