I don’t know why, but the site-wide toggle never appears in my instance. Does it require the discourse-translator plugin enabled? Actually… no buttons to translate anything appear at all.

Hello everyone, I’m self-hosting Discourse, I managed to get Ollama to work reasonably well by setting the Discourse AI LLM settings with SambaNova pointing directly to Ollama Server. However, I have some questions… This Icon never appears… [image] And I’m not sure how to translate posts. Als…

Wow… it magically started working after I changed this fields to: AI translation max post length: 20000 AI translation backfill max age days: 50 Strange… Seems to be working quite nicely now. I wonder if translations are also indexable by search engines.

[image] Smooth_Play: it magically started working after I changed this fields Yeah, that’s how it works per Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI [image] Smooth_Play: I wonder if translations are also indexable by search engines Yes, they are!

Thank you so much for your feedback, so you know if it’s possible to add more than 10 languages? Even if not officially supported?

There is a hidden sure setting named content_localization_max_locales that defaults to 10. You can change it via the rails console.

Why Is the Discourse AI Translation Icon Not Appearing?

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) October 5, 2025, 3:28pm 7

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