Changelog 2025-03-01: Media and Muting

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In an attempt to make major changes to F9 not fall into obscurity, I'll start posting about them in changelog threads. I plan for the F9 Git repo to stay up-to-date with these changes, so let me know if I fall behind on that.

Embedded Video and Audio

Next to the YouTube button in the editor, you should now see a video and audio icon. You can probably guess what that does!

Note that no post-processing is done here. So remember that codecs outside of the usual (vp8/9, h.264, mp3, ogg, etc) might not work on all systems. Also if you hotlink a video and it disappears, we don't keep a copy!

Future plans include making it easier for users to click right to the media file instead of having to watch it in the forum.

Topic Muting

Technically "ignoring" is the term SMF uses... but I didn't realize that until it would have been too annoying to rename it everywhere. Oops!

This allows you to hide topics from the main forum view. At the moment, this only overrides the "message index" view (i.e., when you're looking directly at a board). If you're on the main page, you might still see a topic you muted in the "Last post:" box. Changing that is tricky, but hopefully that'll be fixed soon!

To mute a topic, visit the topic page and click "Mute Topic" in the button bar at the top or bottom. On mobile, it'll be under the "User Actions" button.

The Rest

Last but not least:

• YouTube embeds now use youtube-nocookie.com, and don't provide the origin in the URL. We don't use the JS APIs, so there shouldn't be any noticeable changes.
• Message icons should now be linked to our "F9" theme, fixing an issue where custom icons don't appear.

Special thanks to @iliana, @lifning, and @semaphore for the suggestions and help finding bugs.