In fact, one frustrating thing is that discourse does not do a good job in (at least Chinese) localization. I’ve always been in the habit of tweaking translations for my own forums, because really, there’s a lot of confusing language. A lot of this comes from locale differences.
As a discourse user for many years, maybe I have become accustomed to blunt translation, but this post reminds me, maybe @jidanni actually has a point.
One thing is the “Defer” mentioned here. In the Chinese context, people never say “defer a topic” but say “make the topic as unread”. This makes it so that the first time I saw this button, I had to try it myself to know what it meant. There are many such things, such as “flair”. Its Chinese localization translation is “天赋”, which means “talent”, totally bewildering.
But of course, this is entirely up to the forum admins. They can always adjust any text.
(I seem to be off topic?)
(I’m very happy to join, if discourse needs me to do something in Chinese localization.)
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