User blog:Aeradise/FlooTube & Fun

This has been kind of a personal project that started way back in like January ??? February that I was inspired to continue by Oli after I discovered he was also interested in making a Wizarding YouTube equivalent.

In Character
FlooTube is a video-sharing platform and as well as a live-streaming platform for wizards and witches alike to create, share, and watch different media and content. Canonically launched somewhere in the early 2030s, it became a huge hit with the younger generations of the wizarding world and has blown up since there. It's become so popular, they are whole communities on the website that have even based their living off of it.

Out of Character
FlooTube, as you can tell by the name, is the wizarding world's YouTube equivalent. You can create FlooTube channels using the FlooTube template.

How do I make a FlooTube Channel?
Well, there's two ways to do this. The first one is the most simple. What you want to do is type the name of your channel into that create box down there, click "create" and then it should take you directly to the editor where an empty FlooTube Channel template should be. Then, you can just fill out the template as instructed below and click publish. Make sure to add your user category before pressing publish.

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The second way is honestly just the first with more steps. Take the empty template below and fill it out, with the page titled "FlooTube/(Name of Channel)". There's notes in there incase you need explanation for what does what or just little suggestions I have for filling out the template.

After you finish filling this out, add the categories "FlooTube" and your personal category (Category:Username) to the page and press publish. When you're finished, it should look somewhat like this.



The last thing you want to do is fill out your "FlooTuber" mini display. The mini display looks like this.



It'll show up in the "Other Channels" section of your FlooTube channel. It's essentially you make one for your channel if you want it to be featured in the Other Channels section of people's FlooTube Channels. Please keep in mind you should always ask first before adding anyone to your Other Channels section.

To fill one out, take the empty template and create a page. It can be titled whatever you want as long as it helps you keep track of it.

When it's filled out, it'll look like this.



Then all you have to do is press publish and you can put this in any "Other Channels" category you want (with permission of course).

Video Gallery
To set up your gallery for your photos, you're gonna need another template. This one is very simple and it's only contents will be his small table.

On each line, just add your thumbnail. I personally recommend you resize it to a width of 200x when putting it in (especially if you used Canva's YouTube Thumbnail template). There's an automatic scroll built into the template, so don't worry about not having enough space for a thumbnail.

Here it is filled out.

Channel Gallery
For your gallery of "other channels", you will need another template (don't worry, this is the last one), with the same contents as the other gallery. A really important note I want to make is that the following empty table I'm going to give you must be used for the channel gallery. If you use the one above, it won't work. If you end up using the first one instead of the one below and then ask me why it doesn't work, I will link you this blog and ask you to read this section.

Here it is filled out.

And there you go. Here is FlooTube for all your FlooTubing needs. If you have any questions about the code, just message me, I'll be happy to help.