Hello 
This is so cool Nat 
Love it 
Itâs probably already discussed somewhere⊠when the post was edited it should rerun the translation, I think? If I understand correctly, for now it works like, it recognize the post as translated so wonât do again the translation even if the post was edited?
I donât think this is the permanent solution
Great question, but no, we currently do not âretranslate when editedâ.
While this feature was experimental, we retranslated each edit, but while testing the feature we realised that there are many occurrences where the site was wasting far too many tokens translating edited posts, especially large ones. Definitely something we will revisit.
I see, yeah that would be cool to find a way for outdated translations. Is there any plan to add translate button or translate post with rebuild HTML button but not with rebake posts or other way to force the translation on posts?
Iâve also noticed the lightbox is not working on translated posts.
We use ai bot in our community in topics with mention and automatisation. But translation isnât working on bot users. I think that would make sense to translate those posts too.
Iâm fixing typos, a lot, but not every one at one time. So forcing translation every time is a bit too much. But could there be somekind force translation option in admin menu for those situations when something is changed so much it would ne necessary?
Me too. And inline oneboxes also show a plain link
Definitely something weâd want, but weâll have to deliberate over the UX here â various options, how to present them, and limits. 
Adding to OP.
Please take into account that billions of people speak more than one language.
If Iâm fluent in German, English and French, I would like to see the original, untranslated content if it is in any of those three languages.
At the moment, it appears that I can only select one language, and all content will be translated to that one language. Because translation is inevitably a lossy process, that is very frustrating to me if I would have understood the original perfectly well.
Why donât you use translations only when you donât understand?
Here comes BabelâŠ
Is there a way to opt out from becoming AI-food?
I spent some time having conversations with people in Palestine, they would write in Arabic and I would write in English, both sides would receive contents in their own language. Although itâs useful for basic conversation, it really becomes very hard to catch subtleties and requires forming very explicit and unambiguous sentences for the AI not to trip. A translation error can have disastrous consequences. Such features should really not become common place. For Discourse Meta, it makes sense, because it enables non-English speakers to ask questions and get solid technical feedback. But be careful with what you wish for. Once you have your forum overwhelmed by people speaking a language you donât understand, not only you become dependent on Gaggle AI, but you also lose agency, and your community content becomes AI fodder. Who wants to discuss in a place where meaning is lost in AI translation? If thereâs no way to distinguish a human speaking through a babelfish from a generative AI babbling, weâre going down.
Which one is bigger threat to you:
Because that way I red it.
Stealing or spying it canât be, because bot-traffic is never ending, follow pixels are everywhere and 8.8.8.8. does rest of the job, but you arenât worriying those.
But you have freedom to choose â donât write or even visit if a forum/media is open or using AI.
You obviously do not know who you are talking to, and make wrong assumptions all the way.
âFreedom to chooseâ between not communicating or being forced into something you donât want? How is that a choice? I call it bullying, at the very least.
Reddit disagree with you by the way their are using translation in real time and adapting each lang with his own ways maybe using deep learning with human feedback? Anyway.
The road to hell is paved by good intentions.
We say in Czech. I understand what you both mean. And you are not talking about the same subject.
It is not a fear of AI. It has nothing to do with it. Maybe you didnât live through enough of misunderstanding. In the same language, same culture, people you know for years. Maybe you did not study enough languages so yo cannot imagine how subtle one language can be in one word where it takes hours to find something that will almost but not exactly say what you meant. And that all assumes that you are TRYING to communicate.
Now this approach (that everything has to be easy and available to everyone) might result into people not being forced to care about what they say and to whom. Didnât we have enough of it already?
I talk differently to Germans. Differently to Polish. Differently to Swiss. Differently to Icelandic. Differently to French. Differently to Slovak. And now maybe differently to Finish. I know their languages and cultures enough to be careful. If everyone is trying to talk in English, you at least know we are different and assume some level of misunderstanding. If I speak just Czech from now on, 30 % of what I say gets lost. You will never be able to grasp our humor we have in our language. I have to say it differently to each culture. Yet you will speak to us in our language through the bot. It will sound rough. Unempatethic. There is so much in languages than pure content as you suggest.
Btw I stumbled upon a topic here where people say something about peeing in a shower :)) So funny. I am wondering how this gets auto translated to Chinese or Arabic. Maybe I donât want to knowâŠ
I also know people that learn a new language just to be able to read books in their original languages. Because translations cannot give you the original emotions. There ARE emotions in what you write. And they definitely get lost in translation.
Discourse is about civilized discussion. There is so much done about it in the product. Automatic translation can leverage it or kill it for good if not done carefully.
And now I actually realised that what I wrote just now was translated automatically into other languages. I have no idea what the translation is. And people speaking those languages might not even realise I am not speaking that language. What do I say there? I feel strange. Someone is creating an image of myself in another language, another culture and I have no way to influence it.
Me. The one careful about his words. Very interesting feeling. Disturbing, I must say.
EDIT: btw I made a typo in this text and it would completely change the way it sounds. One letter. As I know Discourse does not retranslate on post changes because of the costs, again. Maybe in another language my post sounds completely stupid.
No, I really donât know some random and anonymous nicks 
So, all I do is read what you wrote.
I think everyone should decide for themselves in their community whether to use the translations or not. If there is a Czech community writing about comedy and jokes, then you just donât activate it and thatâs fine. My English is very poor, and I am grateful for the function that translates it into my language. So far, I have been able to understand everything here, and the members of my community, who are mostly from Portugal, Spain, Germany, and some Asian countries, also accept the function well. The members also know that this function exists and how it works.
Or maybe I done⊠and yet the main question is here very simple: do we communicate somehow or donât we communicate at all. Nothing less, nothing more.
BTW, that proverb is common thru all western world, and even more.
And it is matter of AI in general⊠I remember quite well what active ones have complaining here.
So this very easy question:
Is it better for communication to use broken i.e. English or doesnât communicate at all, or is it better to use the mothertongue and others who canât gets perhaps not-so-good translations? Which one it is, because there isnât any middle ground, or nothing philosophical or linguistic about this.
And again â if (AI-)translations feels any kind of threat or bothers in any way⊠it is just one click and the problem is solved. But you canât Finnish and I canât Czech, so what are options here to understand those nuances?
But if the need is to make that decision for others, what they can read or not â then it is totally another ballpark and -game, and IMO very disturbing way.
You see. And we have a misunderstanding right here. And we are both giving an energy into our conversation by expressing ourselves in a common language.
Czech is inherently funny. We do not have to talk about jokes to play with words in strange funny ways. We are funny in technical, political, health, everywhere. The language is made that way. Yet some languages are not funny at all. The cultures are not either. Or on a different level.
And now imagine I read from you what you just wrote in Czech. I might think âwhat a strange guy, no sense of humor whatsoeverâ. Because I assume you ARE Czech. And so I make a joke maybe â here on Meta. Just to make things smoother. And it gets even weirderâŠ
I love the way Discourse goes. Itâs nothing against. Some of us are just raising flags about things we lived through. So Discourse does not need to repeat some huge mistakes we made.
My opinion â it is better not to communicate at all. If it is too easy, itâs a disaster. Look at social media. 99 % trash. Most of the people should not have a surface to say what they think in the way they do. Maybe including myself. No problem with that.
EDIT: to be more precise: one thing is to talk in your local pub, everyone somehow understands you and you donât have to try so much. But if you go to an international forum, full of different cultures and languagesâand the barrier is really low (you donât need to know anything)âyou might not do very well. Maybe you should learn French if you want to do foreign affairs. Because you will learn not just that but much more along the way. And if you do not want to invest anything into understanding or talking to other people⊠why are you talking to them in the first place? I believe it is good that some things are hard and that we should at least think about it before making it too easy. So easy that it will backlash.