I have enabled AI translation on my personal site and it’s pretty great! Kudos to Natalie and everyone who’s worked on this amazing feature! So easy to configure.
I have set it up to also translate PMs, but for some reason that does not seem to be working correctly.
according to the translation admin page, translation progress is at 100%
AI translation backfill limit to public content is not selected
when I select “Schedule Translations” I am shown this notification “All posts in this topic are already translated.”
To get translations to occur, I have to select “Translate post” on each post individually. This works but is of course cumbersome. There does not seem to be a way to force the translation of the entire PM.
Ohhh… well discovered. Many thanks! The “PMs between individuals will not be translated” part is not apparent at all in the UI. It just indicates it has already been translated, and allows you to translate on a per-post basis.
I’d love to see that decision reconsidered because in my use case I can well imagine people who prefer different languages wanting to talk to each other 1:1 in a PM.
Settings will be migrated if ai_translation_enabled or ai_translation_backfill_limit_to_public_content have been modified to non-default values. Untouched otherwise.
ai_translation_backfill_limit_to_public_content = true will now be
ai_translation_target_categories = <all public categories>
ai_translation_personal_messages = none
Conversely, if ai_translation_backfill_limit_to_public_content = false, it will now be
