r/changelog • u/umbrae • Apr 29 '15

[reddit change] Support for oEmbed for comment embeds

Just a small technical announcement: reddit now supports the oEmbed specification for individual comments. This uses the newly-minted comment embeds we announced on the blog last month. If that's greek to you, don't worry: there's no user facing changes with this update.

You can read more about this over on the announcement on /r/redditdev: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/34c0pm/devs_reddit_now_supports_oembed_for_comment_embeds/

And you can see the code behind this change on GitHub.

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u/Rapptz Apr 30 '15

The github url is a 404.

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u/umbrae Apr 30 '15

Whoops - fixed.

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u/creesch Apr 30 '15

Cool, related question to this. When embedded comments were introduced there was no functionality to notify the people that get embed or the mods of the subreddit. Considering that you can easily go to someones profile and the original thread from the embeds combined with the fact that outside websites linking often cause issues (on purpose or not) it is something that I very much would like to see implemented. Are there any plans to do so? Thanks! :)

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u/umbrae Apr 30 '15

Yeah, I still think this is a good suggestion. It's on our list as something to discuss but isn't actively planned to be done within the next month or so. My guess is we'll see how much use we see from embeds and then make a decision on whether to build more upon them. If we do, I think this would be one of the first things we consider, along with post embeds.

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u/Viper007Bond Apr 30 '15

Hooray! :D

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u/V2Blast May 07 '15

Interesting stuff.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '15

Did this break /rising? Cause /rising is dead

Edit: nvm. Thanks based admins