Shortcodes

Hive Honey: type a shortcode in a post, a comment or a mail and it becomes a heading or a player. The same codes work in circles, the Hive, profiles and @mail.

How they work

Any word works as the tag, as long as it wraps one link: [clip], [trailer] and [embed] all do the same thing. The link decides what plays. A few words are hints: game, pdf, doc, map, music and rss.
Nothing loads from the other site until a reader taps Play. Until then they see a poster and the link.
A link from a site we do not know stays a plain link. It is never fetched.
A shortcode that does not wrap a link is left exactly as you typed it.
Six embeds in one post, comment or mail. A seventh stays a link.
These tags are never shortcodes: b, i, u, s, a, p, br, hr, img, url, code, quote, sic, li, ul, ol.
Some sites refuse to be shown inside another page (Newgrounds, Game Jolt and Kongregate among them). Their links stay links.

Headings

Three sizes. A heading is plain words: a link or another shortcode inside it is read as text.

[h1]My heading[/h1]

The largest heading in a post.

[h2]My heading[/h2]

A section heading.

[h3]My heading[/h3]

A small heading.

Video

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...[/youtube]

A YouTube video. Vimeo, Twitch, Loom, TikTok and Dailymotion links work the same way.

[video]https://example.com/clip.mp4[/video]

A video file (mp4 or webm) in the browser player.

Games

A game runs in a locked frame: no popups, no forms, and it can never move the page off Findborg.

[game]https://name.itch.io/my-game[/game]

An itch.io game. Paste the game page; the playable build is found for you.

[gameembed]https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/123456[/gameembed]

The same as [game]. Scratch, PICO-8, MakeCode Arcade, PlayCanvas, Lichess and Internet Archive games play in place.

[game]https://store.steampowered.com/app/123456/[/game]

A Steam store card (Steam games do not play in a browser).

Documents

A PDF opens through the Google Docs viewer and an Office file through the Microsoft Office viewer. Those services see the address of the file once a reader taps to open it.

[pdf]https://example.com/file.pdf[/pdf]

A PDF, readable in place.

[doc]https://example.com/report.docx[/doc]

A Word, Excel or PowerPoint file.

[embed]https://docs.google.com/document/d/...[/embed]

Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drive files and Calendars.

Music and audio

[music]https://open.spotify.com/track/...[/music]

Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music and Apple Podcasts players.

[audio]https://example.com/song.mp3[/audio]

An audio file (mp3 or ogg) in the browser player.

Maps, posts and everything else

[map]https://www.google.com/maps/place/...[/map]

A Google map.

[embed]https://x.com/name/status/...[/embed]

A post from X, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook or TikTok.

[embed]https://www.figma.com/file/...[/embed]

Figma, Canva, Airtable, Calendly, CodePen, Sketchfab and more than 200 other sites.

[rss]https://example.com/feed.xml[/rss]

The five latest headlines from a feed, as links.

[embed https://example.com/page]

The short form: the link inside the brackets. Works with any tag word.

See it

What a reader gets from the code above each one.

[h1]My heading[/h1]

My heading

[game]https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10128407[/game]

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10128407

A circle's Focal Point

A circle's mods can put one link or one shortcode in Edit circle, under Focal point. It plays at the top of the circle, above the posts, and stays there until a mod changes it.