User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: June 4, 2013/@comment-4981281-20130611111048/@comment-5094574-20130611174135

I honestly do not feel like reading all these comments, so I will post my concerns and apologize if I repeat anybody:

1: If you have to upload the file to the wiki to make the video, that takes up space on the recent video feed for the wiki and on recent activity. Say for instance if I wanted to add a bunch of music videos onto my user page, but don't want to have to worry about uploading them. Now I am unable to use this and have to waste the time adding all the video files.

2: Sizing. I especially liked the old player embed feature because the video stays small even after clicked. With a video file, once it is clicked, it brings up the video player and takes up the whole page. This is especially annoying for multitasking on a page. And even if you make the file large enough where it won't become larger when clicked, it still takes up room on the page.

3: I agree with the final point of the beginning comment on the thread, but I'd like to add to it. Say the video hosted in the file becomes broken or gets removed. Now an admin would have to find it on the wiki and delete it, especially if it comes up as "unused." Same if the video file stops being used on the wiki all together. It still makes it difficult to get to for deleting.

I also see no difference in loading pages, and find monitoring views unnecessary.

I am just stating my views as an admin of my wiki, the Adventure Time wiki, and I hope that these points will be considered.

Thank you.