I’m trying to enable automatic content localization (AI translation backfill) on my self-hosted Discourse instance and I’ve followed all the available guidelines, but I’m not seeing any translations appear. Here’s what I’ve done so far: Enabled content localization enabled Selected at least one language in content localization supported locales Enabled ai translation enabled Chosen a working ai translation model (test is successful) Set ai_translation_backfill_hourly_rate to a number greater than 0 (using the environment variable method in app.yml) Set ai translation max age days to a large value After saving and rebuilding, I posted topics in a different language than my user language preference, but nothing gets translated. I don’t see any evidence of translation jobs running (tried checking Sidekiq scheduled/queues), and the user-facing content remains untranslated. Is there anything else I should check, or any way to better diagnose why the translation backfill is not triggering?

[imagem] nat: [scheduled jobs] Thank you for your suggestion! Yes, I can see these jobs in Sidekiq under /sidekiq/scheduler: Jobs::PostLocalizationBackfill Jobs::TopicLocalizationBackfill Jobs::TopicsLocaleDetectionBackfill They all appear with status “OK” and have recently run. I also noticed that the topic titles are being translated correctly, but the post content itself is not translated yet. Should I simply wait longer for the content to be processed, or is there another setting that I need to check for post content translation?

I have the a similar problem after making all the same changes in my hosted instance. In this case I’m using openai 4o. It seems to translate only the past 3 or 4 posts and nothing further. I still have plenty of credit available on my api key.

What is your ai translation max age days at ? After adjusting that, it can take a while to take effect.

[imagem] RGJ: ai translation max age days Its been around 24h

Hello, I think I’m running into the same issue. I’ve followed all the steps in the guide (https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-localization-manual-and-automatic-with-discourse-ai/370969), including setting AI_translation_backfill_hourly_rate = 50. I’ve tested with all available OpenAI models (tests were successful), and I also ran a rebake. Unfortunately, the AI plugin still refuses to perform automatic translations. Has anyone an idea what could be wrong? I’d be very grateful for any help, as I’m really looking forward to this feature. Version: 3.6.0.beta1-dev [image] Regards Graham

[imagem] GrahamM: AI_translation_backfill_hourly_rate Where I’m at currently. I ran the test with the API key it’s fine. Like I said, translated like 3-4 pots then no others, also new posts are being added and no translations on those. [image] [image] [image] [image]

@joo : me and @tyronejv are using OpenAI. Is that also the case for you? Maybe the issue is related to their API connection. @tyronejv I’m using very similar settings like you. The API key test works fine, but translations still don’t run.

anything in /logs ? try to go to /sidekiq/scheduler and manually trigger all jobs that contain “LocalizationBackfill” and “LocaleDetectionBackfill”

Solved! Do not use GPT-5 unless you have not verified your organisation in OpenAi-Organization settings insert your organisation Id (https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/general) in discourse ai settings disable temperature settings in discourse ai llm settings

At the moment GPT-5 is so slow that its use shound be targeted to different type things. But sure, that is matter of taste and it depends. But I’m using Chat GPT/GPT-5 in Finnish every now and then. Earlier 4x-series where actually quite good with a small and hard language such Finnish. Now… I would never use it for translations. Perhaps GPT-5 and next generations evolve and do better job in the future and perhaps it is already spotless between major languages. But sure, that was totally off topic, but perhaps it can be allowed this one time. You did find needed solution after all. But my vague point is this topic should never born, because , at the moment and by my experiences, no one should never use GPT-5 for translations in the first place.

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tyronejv (Tyrone Visser) 11 Setembro , 2025 17:31 11

Onde estou atualmente. Executei o teste com a chave de API, está tudo bem. Como eu disse, traduzi cerca de 3-4 posts e depois nenhum outro, também novos posts estão sendo adicionados e nenhuma tradução neles.

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