Changing default language will not change the site TITLE or DESCRIPTION!

Also all topics and posts will be written in their original language.

While Discourse can be used for multi-lingual communities, either by giving each language a dedicated category or by relying heavily in the Discourse Translator plugin, Discourse is not, and at the moment doesn’t aim to be, a software that can handle a 100% localized experience using a single instance.

That gives you two options:

  • Work with an okay but not 100% experience in a single instance.

  • Have a different Discourse instance for each locale your company/service servers.

We have customers using both solutions, but each has it’s ups and downs. There are many discussions on the subject on the Topics tagged multi-lingual tag.

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