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 l…

What is your ai_translation_backfill_hourly_rate – can you try 20 to begin with? It would help if you could share all the values. Are all your posts public and not in restricted categories? If ai_translation_backfill_limit_to_public_content is disabled, you won’t have any posts translated. SiteSet…

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.

[image] 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.

[image] 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 n…

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.

[image] 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 (test…

[image] 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.

AI translation backfill not working after all settings configured

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nat (Natalie T) July 18, 2025, 7:27am 5

Were these the jobs you were looking for?

Please also do check the queries mentioned above.

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