Hi Patrick,
Your Map Journal contains some Story Actions that play videos in the Main Stage area when a user clicks on an image or video or link in the Side Panel. All of these videos have been configured as a type "webpage" instead of "video" and the urls for these do have autoplay=1 in them. I'm not sure why all these webpages are being loaded when the Map Journal loads, but that's what's happening. I can look into that on our end.
In the meantime, there are a couple ways to fix this on your end, both of which involve using ago-assistant. Here are some resources for learning to use this tool:
https://developerscorner.storymaps.arcgis.com/editing-the-configuration-of-a-story-map-7b984560b7c2
more screenshots:
https://community.esri.com/thread/194606-my-story-map-wont-open-after-i-made-it-it-just-shows-the-lo...
If you've never used (or are not super comfortable with) ago-assistant, please read these articles above, and please copy your story's json to a text editor before editing it within ago-assistant.
The easiest way to fix this, with the fewest changes to the data behind your story, would be to find YouTube urls with autoplay=1 in the story's json and remove that url parameter. However, this would mean that, after your users click a video thumbnail in the Side Panel to play it in the Main Stage, they would also have to click a play button in the Main Stage for the video to actually play.
To make this change, search your json for "autoplay" and you'll come across lines that look like this:
"frameTag": "<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/eLKJL-9vpcw?rel=0&autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"></iframe>",
Just remove &autoplay=1 so it becomes this:
"frameTag": "<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/eLKJL-9vpcw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"></iframe>",
However, the ideal way of fixing this problem would be to change these actions from "webpage" to "video" media type. This would preserve the "autoplay" nature of the video when a user clicks on the thumbnail, and eliminate the play-on-app-load problem.
Here is what one of your video Story Actions currently looks like:
"id": "MJ-ACTION-1492281048304",
"type": "media",
"media": {
"type": "webpage",
"webpage": {
"url": "",
"type": "webpage",
"display": "stretch",
"unload": true,
"frameTag": "<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/eLKJL-9vpcw?rel=0&autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"></iframe>",
"ts": 1492281048304
}
}
And here is what it would need to be changed to:
"id": "MJ-ACTION-1492281048304",
"type": "media",
"media": {
"type": "video",
"video": {
"url": "//www.youtube.com/embed/eLKJL-9vpcw?rel=0&autoplay=1",
"type": "video",
"display": "stretch",
"ts": 1492281048304
}
}
Three occurrences of "webpage" become "video", the url from the "frameTag" property goes into the "url" property instead (drop the "https:" and just start the url with "//"), and the properties "frameTag" and "unload" are deleted. (Note "&" just becomes "&") But by keeping "autoplay=1", the user won't have to click on the Main Stage video to get it to play.
You also have regular Main Stage videos (not Story Actions) that are currently configured as webpages. This doesn't seem to be causing problems at the moment, but it's recommended that these be configured as videos, and you can do that within the Builder. For instance, if you edit section 4, you'll see this screen for the Main Stage:
The content in the Main Stage is actually a YouTube video, but note it's been configured as a web page. If you click the "Back" button, you can copy the url to the YouTube video, then switch to the "Video" media type, and paste the url.