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If possible and if it would be considered, I would appreciate an option on the Edit Video page for an old/unrestored upload to be able to re-upload the video.

  • As videos are tied to the link and the link has been shared on Poal and elsewhere, visitors to that link find a dead video.
  • One could re-upload a video as a new upload, but that would not link the new upload to the old video/replace it.
  • If creating a new upload, it would have a new link and that link to the new upload would need to be manually added to the video description of the old, dead video to point visitors to the new upload.
  • This also causes duplicates of videos and bloats Vid8 search results where the new upload works and the old one is dead.

To avoid these issues, being able to just re-upload the video to the existing page for old videos that could not be restored would allow for that video page to become active again. It would allow for any links to the dead video that had potentially been shared on Poal and elsewhere to no longer point to the dead video as the video on the page would be restored.

If possible and if it would be considered, I would appreciate an option on the Edit Video page for an old/unrestored upload to be able to re-upload the video. - As videos are tied to the link and the link has been shared on Poal and elsewhere, visitors to that link find a dead video. - One could re-upload a video as a new upload, but that would not link the new upload to the old video/replace it. - If creating a new upload, it would have a new link and that link to the new upload would need to be manually added to the video description of the old, dead video to point visitors to the new upload. - This also causes duplicates of videos and bloats Vid8 search results where the new upload works and the old one is dead. To avoid these issues, being able to just re-upload the video to the existing page for old videos that could not be restored would allow for that video page to become active again. It would allow for any links to the dead video that had potentially been shared on Poal and elsewhere to no longer point to the dead video as the video on the page would be restored.

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Encountering an issue again relating to uploading a video.

I just deleted an old, dead upload of mine: https://vid8.poal.co/user/Khro_/FNA647k It was titled saying Trump complains kikes control of congress that they rightfully deserve.

It deleted fine and then I tried to re-upload the video as a new upload. I used the same name for this new upload as the old upload used to have, which should be an issue as the old upload no longer exists.

It now gives me an error that the video I am trying to upload already exists, despite that I've already deleted the other video.

It doesn't seem there should be an issue. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

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It now gives me an error that the video I am trying to upload already exists

This is to prevent bots from spamming the same video over (even after they are removed).

I'll update the duplicate algorithm.

In the meantime you can send me a list of the videos you want to be restored with a kikebox mirror (I can download and restore to your vid8 upload folder).

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Sorry, AOU. You probably mentioned that to me that last time I had an issue with an identical title for an upload. I forgot all about that. I apologize for that and for bringing up issues that shouldn't be issues and are merely from my doing things strangely. I'll just be sure to change the upload title to be different when I replace a dead video with a new upload.

It takes me a long time to upload videos due to slow internet. Since I would be uploading a video to either vid8 or to kikebox and archiving it anyway, I haven't yet looked at what videos would be better updated manually by you from an upload to kikebox versus re-uploaded vid8 as a new video and then delete the old one.

I'll try to go through all or most of my past uploads tonight to list out which I think would be fine for removal/re-upload and which could be asked of you to manually update from a link.

Sorry again, and thank you once more.

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I haven't yet looked at what videos would be better updated manually by you from an upload to kikebox versus re-uploaded vid8 as a new video and then delete the old one.

If you give me a list (json/xml dictionary) of the original video links and their new mirrors, I can automatize the restoration.