An update to our Videos section has been on the back burner for quite a while now and we're pleased to launch it today. There's also a new feature to Save Content for later.
Videos
We have a new playlist feature that our editorial staff can use to curate some cool video content for you. These can be seen on the videos homepage as well as the new category pages.
Nick Brown and Rob Greenwood have been very busy over the last few months meeting gear manufacturers via Zoom. The playlist feature has been integrated into the gear section to create a new view for the Trade Show Reports. More of these to follow shortly...
There's hashtag support too like #Approach Shoes. This will be expanded on later.
There's a new dedicated page for athletes, for example Nicky Spinks.
You can search from the homepage or be more specific by clicking on the search on one of the category pages.
The next phase will be adding the ability to create your own playlists and view your play history (kinda like YouTube) and integrating the Videos into the Logbooks. You will be able to link crags and climbs to a video and mark them at specific timestamps if a video features multiple climbs.
Saved Content
Users can now save content on UKH to enable quicker access, or as a means to save their favourite bits. Any article (or news piece), crag, forum post, or forum reply can be saved with the click of a button.
To aid organisation, tags can be added to saved content. You can create any number of tags, and add them to however many pieces of content you want.
Once you save a piece of content, you can find it in the Saved Content section of the website, which is accessible through the link found in the user dropdown (on mobile, this dropdown has moved to the very top of the screen, to make way for the new videos shortcut button).
Comments
typo in the example tag: #grtistone
Really nice set of updates, seems like they lay the foundations for some interesting new usage of UKC.
Im particularly psyched for the upcoming ability to add videos to climbs in the logbook, that could grow in to an amazing resource for beta videos. (Blatant plug) I've done something similar with a little proj of mine https://climbing-history.org/ by adding vids for historically interesting ascents and kept thinking how cool it would be to expand it out to cover general beta vids. Frankly it was too far out of the scope of the rest of the project and I didn't fancy getting in to the business of cataloging all climbs a la UKC (which is obviously a pre-requisite).
Great update, videos for climbs on the logbooks, even if it just links to the videos which are hosted on YouTube, would be really good too.
I think this has been updated now, but can only put down the error to the fact that neither Paul or Andy have touched gritstone in a long, long time as a result of the latest lockdown. No doubt their spelling will improve again once they're allowed back outside :-)
Will the function to link videos to climbs in the logbooks be usable with videos hosted on Youtube/Vimeo/Instragram? It sounds worryingly like it'll only work with videos that have been uploaded to UKC..?