Template talk:VideoGallery: Difference between revisions

My idea to solve this was to make an empty template and call it from VideoGallery, and have [[User:BuildBot]] make a meaningless edit to it once a day, but the way it works is different from how I thought. Apparently second level nested templates being changed doesn't update the cache on the top level page. This is kind of bad behavior since say if we just pushed the YouTube template fixes for the brackets but the VideoGallery wasn't being edited around the same time, I guess that means the fix wouldn't be applied to any pages until those individual pages were edited. I then tried to add a current time template to the VideoGallery since that's extremely volatile to see if there was some sort of specific override for date stuff, and that still wasn't updating on refresh. The only thing I can think of here client side would be to have BuildBot just add a newline and then remove it or something on the VideoGallery template every day if you just want a daily refresh. Since nobody noticed the pseudo randomness until now, I don't think that's such a problem, and fixing it would require adding checks of the random values against each other which seems like a mess. And, the behavior of having the same ones show up at the same time would never really be different I don't think unless there were at least 2 separate dynamically changing seeds, which doesn't seem worth the effort really (especially since they won't cause a reload).

I think a totally new approach with some kind of expandable box or Kolano's YouTube API pairing idea seem interesting, but I wouldn't know where to start with that. Frankly I'm horrible at web styling CSS kind of stuff, so anything involving that is outside of my current ability. - [[User:Xerxes|Xerxes]] ([[User talk:Xerxes|talk]]) 10:19, 17 July 2017 (CEST)