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?

Thank you for your reply! My DISCOURSE_AI_TRANSLATION_BACKFILL_HOURLY_RATE is set to 30. ai_translation_backfill_limit_to_public_content is enabled. All of my posts are public and not in any restricted categories.

[immagine] joo: I don’t see any evidence of translation jobs running (tried checking Sidekiq scheduled/queues) Were these the jobs you were looking for? [scheduled jobs] Please also do check the queries mentioned above.

[immagine] 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.

[immagine] 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

[immagine] 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”

Riempimento automatico della traduzione AI non funzionante dopo la configurazione di tutte le impostazioni

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