# After update, Discourse is in English although default\_locale seems et to French
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** localization
**Created:** [31 januari 2026 om 21:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859 "2026-01-31T21:35:07Z")
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### Author:  [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [31 januari 2026 om 21:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859/1 "2026-01-31T21:35:07Z")
I just updated Discourse (for the first time! yay me!) and it seems to have worked 🤞 except that the interface is now English instead of French. Am I missing something? Here it is: [https://discourse.diabetefelin.com](https://discourse.diabetefelin.com)
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [31 januari 2026 om 22:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859/2 "2026-01-31T22:02:54Z")
This looks like French.
Which language is selected in your [interface preferences](https://discourse.diabetefelin.com/my/preferences/interface)?
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [1 februari 2026 om 00:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859/3 "2026-02-01T00:57:26Z")
yes it is in french. in fact i tried to walk through the sign up and was going to post screenshots of it all so you could see that it was all in french, but unfortunately you’re doing this facebook requirement thing?
anyways. not to worry. using a test user or incognito mode would have verified that it was in french 🙂
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### Author:  [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [1 februari 2026 om 11:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859/4 "2026-02-01T11:46:10Z")
Oh. Eeps. It was English for me when I posted… and still is :-/
And of course I’m not certain it wasn’t already before (broken brain again this last month).
So probably it’s my user. Will post if I figure more out.
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### Author:  [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [1 februari 2026 om 11:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859/5 "2026-02-01T11:48:24Z")
Oh, sorry about that, we’re still very much in draft mode, the foundations of the house aren’t even really in place! (Why the Facebook thing: because we’ll be starting out by migrating existing community members, see [Migrating from Facebook: specific challenges, and some thoughts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-facebook-specific-challenges-and-some-thoughts/392562) for context).
Thanks for checking it out!
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### Author:  [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [1 februari 2026 om 11:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859/6 "2026-02-01T11:50:57Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> Which language is selected in your [interface preferences](https://discourse.diabetefelin.com/my/preferences/interface)?
Ah well, there we go.
My brain apologises and will go and rest a bit more before creating extra problems!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [3 maart 2026 om 11:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-update-discourse-is-in-english-although-default-locale-seems-et-to-french/394859/7 "2026-03-03T11:51:54Z")
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