Youtube social links use legacy URL format

[iandoesallthethings]

• This is a question about using the theme.
• I believe this to be a bug with the theme --- not Jekyll, GitHub Pages or one of the bundled plugins.
• This is a feature request. (kinda)
• I have updated all gems with bundle update.
• I have tested locally with bundle exec jekyll build.

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Environment informations

• Minimal Mistakes version: 4.1.0
• github-pages or jekyll gem version: Jekyll gem version
• Operating system: Windows 10 WSL (Ubuntu)

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Expected behavior

Youtube social links (in sidebar and about) should be able to link to current url structure for channels:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/<CHANNEL_ID>
http://www.youtube.com/c/<CUSTOM_URL>

Currently, the author.youtube variable is being injected into the legacy format:

http://www.youtube.com/user/

This only works with older channels created before the structure changed.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Add a channel ID or custom url to _config.yml.

After searching the repo, I found a couple of spots where the url is built from author.youtube, but I think that code is bundled in the gem, so I don't know how to edit it.

[mmistakes]

If you add the entire URL to your YouTube channel (eg. youtube: https://youtube.com/c/customURL) in _config.yml you should be all set.

Adding a username still works like it used. There's a check for :// now to determine which format to use.

[drhirsch]

Thank you! I had manually edited the code to do this; I really appreciate allowing the whole URL as a trigger for custom behavior!