Still, the main thing I had in mind was to embed some custom interactive stuff.
Implementing it as iframe support, would be the most general, and you would solve all the possible “embed X” suggestions at once. So it seams to be the most efficient approach.
It might be too powerful. In particular, moderators can no longer fully control the content of the post. If you’re sneaky, you can even engineer a post that appears differently to different people. I think allowing authors to embed totally arbitrary content is too much freedom.
Embed iframes
Some use cases:
interactive visualizations
videos
airtables (as already suggested)
polis questions (as already suggested)
guesstimate models
and many many more
This feature is very versatile and would solve many things at once.
Thanks for this suggestion, I believe you can already embed a number of things in posts by default, but not arbitrarily anything, see here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Y8gkABpa9R6ktkhYt/forum-user-manual#Extra_cool_things
Oh great! I didn’t know about some of them.
Still, the main thing I had in mind was to embed some custom interactive stuff.
Implementing it as iframe support, would be the most general, and you would solve all the possible “embed X” suggestions at once. So it seams to be the most efficient approach.
It might be too powerful. In particular, moderators can no longer fully control the content of the post. If you’re sneaky, you can even engineer a post that appears differently to different people. I think allowing authors to embed totally arbitrary content is too much freedom.