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Sometimes the conversation derails momentarily, you feel like you have an interesting information to share to the community but don’t want to go blatantly off topic…
You may use the “details” (“derails”?) button for a quick aside.
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Hi @LyingDalai ,
I was wondering if you can help me,
How do I post a snippet of audio to the forum so it gets that built in audio player?
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drag and drop the mp3 (or use the upload button). You’re limited in file size, I don’t remember if it’s 5 or 10 MB though but is around 4 minutes for a 320 kbps mp3, I believe. Discourse engine doesn’t make a clear message though, the upload progression only get stuck.
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drop the link toward where your music is hosted with no other character in the line.
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Yay hay!
Thanks @LyingDalai
Basic stuff I know, but I’m a bit green:)
So PC is best, not off phone.
(4min mp3 is quite long).
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Hello again 
How do I remove a thread from the main forum list, is there a way?
People talk about muting threads, can I like, remove a thread from the list so when I click Forum it’s not there?
if you mute a thread it should disappear from every list or category, you’d need to use a direct link to access it or you can view all muted threads by adding ?state=muted to a url, for example:
https://www.elektronauts.com/latest?state=muted
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Oooh:) thanks for the reply.
I need to get slightly technical, no easy button click on my phone (for a philistine like me lol)?
if you scroll down to the bottom of the thread there should be a dropdown where you can select muted, if it’s not there try refreshing, sometimes it glitches, after selecting Muted you should not see the thread anymore
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Hey thank you very much @alechko , I’m such a dope 
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You have no idea how much difficulty I have explaining how these tracking links work to the average person…
Thank you for the heads up, and I’ll be especially careful here.
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Normally, when I read a post in a topic, the little blue point in the right side disappears, meaning that i"ve read this post…but, since yesterday, the blue points are always there, so each time I open the forum on my ‘Latest’, all old post already read still there, and the forum says me - “you have 10 post not read in this topic”…but, i already read yesterday… It doesn’t update…I’m using Brave, last update…maybe I’ve made a bad manipulation?
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Just to reiterate, because i still see this tripping people up. If you want to have the image of a YT video to show up in your post you need to strip off the ?si=123… identifying tag off the end of your yt link. Discourse doesn’t deal with it otherwise.
Mod edit: this is good practice, but doesn’t matter for Discourse.
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This is very good practice to remove identifiers as it doesn’t ease tracking the relationship between you and those you show the vid to.
But what you say is wrong: it’s the ˋ/short` part that usually prevents yt thumbnails to get correctly displayed. This, and any character on the same line of the URL 
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I don’t understand what the confusion is surrounding? Are we talking about copying the numeric part from the end of the link and replacing the http portion with youtu.be? Because that’s all I do. If we aren’t talking about shorts specifically then it shouldn’t matter, should it?
What I mean is that normal video links seem to show up fine as a thumbnail without any alteraion.
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Then i am misinterpreting why this post is not displaying the image, but does click through to the video.
I saw another case like this too just a few days back, somewhere, can’t find it at the moment.
There was a time in the past that removing the ?si… did make the image appear, so good that is fixed. I just experimented and indeed the image does appeared in the preview with an ?si… attached for me.
Apologies for the confusion.
Reason might be that the link is inline with the text. If you place the same link separately on the next line after a return it displays the player.
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