Attempt to use a YT handle for your channel URL results in a error

This is for every instance of social links, in-fact, the entire social link system has to be revisted as it has a very strict string matching system, for example group links can’t have www in them or a group name and you can’t use any YouTube links except those formatted the same as the legacy channel link way as you mention.

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Just want to make you aware that having a slash at the end of your url will have it error anyway, does the same for most other social links.

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I think most services don’t seem to handle @'s in URLs properly, only sites that really use them rn is Mastodon and YouTube, not a Roblox exclusive problem, but I hope this gets fixed soon.

Doesn’t really affect me that much, as I haven’t bothered changing from the legacy /c/ URLs.

Also, you don’t need ‘/channel’ in the URL, for example youtube.com/@ExperiencersInternational will work fine.
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I know, I noticed this right after I had gotten my screenshot, that errors too.

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There’s no real point of using a playlist, just get your channel ID, besides the post you linked was for adding a video, where a playlist would be more effective with, not very effective with just a channel.

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Thanks for the report. I filed a ticket to our internal database.

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This also happens with Social Links on an experience.

Hoping this can be fixed soon as I am trying to add a YouTube channel to an experience.

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Nothing has been adressed yet , that annoying

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It is going to be almost a year we need this fix asap

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Roblox, why did you not fix it after like 6 months???

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This is STILL an issue, experimenting around with the link, it’s specifically the “@” that is causing the link to be invalid.

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I cannot get any variation of a YouTube link to work. This is frustrating that this has gone unresolved for so long.

I cannot use the link with the channel ID. I cannot use a link to a playlist. I can’t even add YouTube.com/user/roblox as my YouTube social link. Nothing works anymore.

you need to put in this format ( or at least it worked for me )

https://youtube.com/c/{user}

in my case: https://youtube.com/c/im_Magni

This does not work for smaller / newer channels as they are not elegible for a url such as this one.

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This is outside the scope of this particular bug report which specifically refers to YouTube handles, perhaps consider supporting this topic: No longer permitted to save YouTube social links

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Until Roblox fixes it, you can solve this as follows:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/your-channel-ID

You can get your channel ID in the “About” tab by clicking the share button.
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Seems like there might’ve been an attempted fix for this. Now it doesn’t cause an error, but it adds /user/ to the URL between the domain and the handle (which is a 404 page on YouTube). Note that https://www.youtube.com/user by itself redirects to the channel of the signed-in user (or prompts you to sign in).

Youtube links are no longer accepted due to a Youtube change with how they handle Youtube channel URLs. Would love to have this fixed so I can link to a brands Youtube Channel.

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Page: https://create.roblox.com/dashboard/creations/experiences/4864008873/social-links

Hello! We believe this should be fixed now. Could you please help to verify?

Thanks!

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This has been fixed, thank you!

However, this hasn’t been fixed for group social links: