Scavenger hunt bug

Hi all,

I have just noticed that the scavenger hunt item for "posts with a video" also counts all posts with a picture. For example, taken from my profile:

Create a post with an image (97/1)
Create a post with a youtube or vimeo video (98/1)

I'm pretty sure I have only posted a single Vimeo video, for a BB, yet the count seems to be that video plus all of the image posts!

I think that my "scavenger hunt" also ahs a bug.  I am pretty sure that I made a post with a youtube video in it a week or two ago, but it still says that I need one.  I'm not paranoid about finishing the scavenger hunt, but since I only have 2 things left to accomplish, and this being one of them, I thought I would ask.  
(on a side note, the other I need to complete is starting a few more threads... I could have made this a new post to get another thread... but I believe in keeping conversations threaded by topic, so I did not want to create an extraneous new thread when I could simply highjack this one that was about a similar topic)

can you give us a link to that post?

paul wheaton wrote:can you give us a link to that post?

Here is the post where I included a video:
https://permies.com/t/177596/Farming-extreme-cold

Just for clarification, it didn't have to be a video that I created, correct?  
Thank you for your help, Paul.  I appreciate this site.

Luke Mitchell wrote:I have just noticed that the scavenger hunt item for "posts with a video" also counts all posts with a picture. For example, taken from my profile:

Create a post with an image (97/1)
Create a post with a youtube or vimeo video (98/1)

I'm pretty sure I have only posted a single Vimeo video, for a BB, yet the count seems to be that video plus all of the image posts!

Excellent observation!

This is fixed now!

Thomas,

The scavenger hunt task wants you to 'embed' the video. To embed a youtube video, you are supposed to surround the youtube address with [youtube][/youtube] tags.

For example:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jFTdKO50QE[/youtube]

This makes the video render on permies like this:



On your post, it seems that you had posted a link without the [youtube] tags, and someone in the staff has fixed it for you.

Devaka Cooray wrote:Thomas,

The scavenger hunt task wants you to 'embed' the video. To embed a youtube video, you are supposed to surround the youtube address with [youtube][/youtube] tags.
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On your post, it seems that you had posted a link without the [youtube] tags, and someone in the staff has fixed it for you.

OK.  So, just to clarify:
Apparently I did not post the video in the correct format for the algorithms to count it.  
It is now in the correct format due to someone correcting it for me.
I don't remember how I entered the url for the video the first time.  

I'm going to try doing it correctly here:
I used the "youtube" button above this box in the editing window and entered the link from youtube, then hit "ok"
Before hitting submit, I am looking at my link and comparing it to the template you shared:

I attaching a screenshot of what I see, just in case it does not work.

Looks good to go.  My profile shows that I have now uploaded a video.  Thanks for providing assistance.  

Happy to help

Hi permies,
I don't know if it's correct to add to this topic or start a new one.
I was trying to get the video part of the scavenger hunt done and created this post:
Post in Rocket Ovens

Then I remebered I had, some time ago, posted a video of Paul in one of the topics, where I thought it would help:
permies.com/p/1349174

None of them seem to have counted towards the video part of the hunt.

Thanks for your time

Benjamin Dinkel wrote:Hi permies,
I don't know if it's correct to add to this topic or start a new one.
I was trying to get the video part of the scavenger hunt done and created this post:
Post in Rocket Ovens

Benjamin, this is exactly the right place to post your question.

Based on the suggestions above from Devaka, it looks to me like your video is correctly formatted for embedding, but I see you didn't get credit for it in your scavenger hunt.
Could you make another post in this thread and embed the video in it? Let's see what happens.

Oh, it might be helpful to know what hardware/software you use for Permies. For example: I'm on a Raspad with Chromium browser. Sometimes I use my desktop PC Windows 10 and Firefox.

Hi Nancy and Leigh,
thanks for answering.
As for hard and software:
I use a windows (10 I think) with chrome. A Linux with chrome and sometimes (like now) my phone, am android, with chrome.

I'll try to add the video here again.


Please note that I also posted a YouTube video a while back and that didn't count either.

Benjamin, it worked! At least, one of them worked. You now have credit on your scavenger hunt for creating a post with a video. It's only counting one, but it's enough to complete that item on the hunt.

Hi Leigh,
thank you. Did you have to do anything for it to work?
It's enough for now, but with the next scavenger hunt I'll need 4 videos, so it would be cool if they all counted...

Benjamin, I honestly don't know. There are some known quirks to the scavenger hunt, which are beyond my understanding of computer software. These get addressed by our developers from time to time, but bugs still pop up. The developers keep track of threads like this one, so the best thing to do is report new problems here.

Dear Tinkerers,
the videos I post are not really counting toward the 5 videos I need for the next scavenger hunt.
Can one of you look into it?
Sorry to pester you with small stuff like that

So I found 6 posts with videos in that you posted, but you only have 2 counted in your scavenger hunt....

https://permies.com/t/257726/rocket-ovens/Rocket-bread-oven-existing-BBQ#2577568 (vimeo)
https://permies.com/t/262508/Mass-bench-ducting-barrel-bell#2576222 (youtube)
https://permies.com/t/262451/Outdoor-cookstove-mishmash#2573952 (youtube) (in quote)
https://permies.com/t/170688/Scavenger-hunt-bug#2440074 (vimeo) (this one gave you your first credit)
https://permies.com/t/257726/rocket-ovens/Rocket-bread-oven-existing-BBQ#2433166 (vimeo)
https://permies.com/t/171858/Rocket-Mass-Heater-Analysis-Design#1349174 (youtube)

It shouldn't matter whether they are vimeo or youtube, just that you 'embedded' the video by using the button or [youtube] text. Staff can embed videos in posts and I don't know whether this may have happened for some of yours.

Hey Nancy,
that seems correct, thanks for looking into it.
I posted them using [vimeo] when it’s a video on Vimeo and with [youtube] when it was on YouTube.

I'm afraid that's the limits of my 'tinkering capabilities Benjamin!

Please be patient, there's a lot going on in the background at the moment just keeping the old server limping along under the face of bots and creaking capacity. Those with the power unfortunately therefore may have other priorities just now. Be patient and thanks for bringing the issue to our attention.


image from thriftyfun
The scavenger hunts are a fun way of finding permies forum's features and gets more difficult the more experience you have.

They are fun, and I’ll be patient. There’s more important things of course.
Thank you!

Testing if posting here a youtube link with tags gets my scavenger hunt list to recognize it:

Pablo Kulbaba wrote:Testing if posting here a youtube link with tags gets my scavenger hunt list to recognize it:

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darn it worked.... now my scavenger hunt list sees the task completed. This is strange, because I copied the text from another post (copy and paste without change) and it recognized it here. This is the original post that didn't get dthe youtube videos recognized in scavenger hunt list:
https://permies.com/t/265924/Danesa-Stove

Pablo Kulbaba wrote:darn it worked.... now my scavenger hunt list sees the task completed. This is strange, because I copied the text from another post (copy and paste without change) and it recognized it here.

I note that other post had no text other than the videos (not something we usually encourage by the way) it may be the fact you had written a sentence as well in your post above, affected the scavenger hunt result.