It would be nice to know the super secret code to embed Rumble videos here.
It was suggested on another board to do the same thing we do for YouTube but replace yt on both sides with video. That didn't work.
I'm not very tech savvy anymore, and I haven't stayed at a Holiday Inn for years...but I have a hunch the answer is going to be something like: "MDS runs on outdated software that won't work with Rumble. It is possible to upgrade MDS, but too many members would have a fit if anything changed."
This is, it seems, exactly the actual answer. A PS on that answer was that even the current version of this server-side software MAY have a way to custom script tags to support non-canned-abilities for embedding unforeseen things from third parties. It's not like the MDS software has to actually understand how to stream the video or anything - it just has to translate a provided video identifier and a custom tag into a different string of text that renders Rumble's embed code. If this version of vBulletin supports custom tags, then it's doable, even if it's a minor chore for a dev kinda person.
I'm with you on not otherwise being too excited about rocking the user experience boat here ... unless it makes the search behaviora LOT morefunctional.