107 sats \ 6 replies \ @lrz 25 Jul 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
I keep seeing comments in Russian. Common sense indicates that SN is meant to communicate in English.
I happen to be able to understand those comments, but I find it rude. It's on them to pass them through a translator.
i think over time, the right approach to solving this problem is to allow users to set the languages they know in their profile settings.
a user who only knows english will only see english content, and users who know multiple languages will see content in those languages.
that way we don’t need to segregate subs for discussion in specific languages, or annoy people who don’t know many languages.
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So the two solutions would be
- have a button to autotranslate responses
- have ability to select your languages (e.g. EN and JP) in your profile settings and then content would be filtered only to those languages. And then if you are posting new post/comment and have multiple default languages, then the UI could ask you which one you are using for your post (just quick buttons).
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In a modern browser it should autotranslate or at least be very easy to translate so I don't mind
I think it's only 2 accounts by probably the same person having very weird, unnatural conversations. 😂😂
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Nah man, I don't agree with this take. It's good for the network for communities to form in various languages. The people who need Lightning and Bitcoin the most are typically not living in English-speaking countries :)
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Like me :) I am from a non-English speaking country with 50%+ annual inflation.
Let's agree to disagree. If they can read and reply to messages in English they should be able to copy and paste through a translator so we can all benefit from what they have to say.
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it would be better if there's a dedicated language tag for them for sorting/filtering.
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