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JonInMiddleGA
10-24-2012, 11:34 PM
Quick question, just in case anybody here can help me point some kids in the right direction.

The student webcasts -- football games, talent shows, etc -- at my son's school have used a Google Site (https://sites.google.com/a/athensacademy.org/athensacademywebcast/) as a landing page for the past year+

It had an embedded video player where the stream appeared, they'd added the Twitter feed to the landing page as well. All was hunky dory until sometime Wed/Thurs last week, when I noticed the Twitter feed was blank. While trying (and failing) to fix that, the kids stuck an RSS feed of the Twitter in its place, which worked fine through last Friday night. Now it's broken too ("Failed to fetch RSS feed")

More critically, the embedded player simply vanished. (The "click here" link launched the player in a separate window as a workaround last Friday). Nothing they've tried has corrected the problem.

Anybody here familiar enough with GoogleSites to offer some help? Was there some major change - like new restrictions or complete blocking - on scripts, custom HTML, etc. that caused the abrupt breakage?

Any insight would be appreciated, Lord knows that the official Google help channels are virtually useless so far.

CU Tiger
10-28-2012, 08:17 PM
Its been a few years since I used google sites...
All I remember is you had to use their God awful widgets to to insert any video and if it wasnt youtube it regularly failed for no known reason.

JonInMiddleGA
10-28-2012, 08:47 PM
Its been a few years since I used google sites...
All I remember is you had to use their God awful widgets to to insert any video and if it wasnt youtube it regularly failed for no known reason.

That was the weird thing about this. We used the site with virtually no changes for nearly two years, embedded video player & all, not a single hint of a problem.
Wasn't fancy but it was reliable as hell.

Then, suddenly, all sorts of stuff goes haywire. And on Friday night, literally the entire content of the site vanished while editing. I actually watched it happen, one of the students was editing a link like he'd done hundreds of times, saved the change and *POOF* ... literally everything on the site was gone. Text, links, logo .jpg, everything.