# Default locale has stopped working
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430 "2017-08-04T07:41:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Esko\_Piirainen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Esko_Piirainen)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/1 "2017-08-04T07:41:23Z")
Hi,
Our site used to have default locale set to “suomi” (“fi”).
This has stopped working, and when as an admin I go to forum preferences (admin/site\_settings/category/required) and change the user default locale to “suomi” and press save, the value remains but has no effect. After reloading preferences page, the value is again “English”.
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### Author:  [@rizka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rizka)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/2 "2017-08-04T21:16:18Z")
We have no such experiences, but we are running the stable branch. Nothing particular going on with the Finnish locale which I upkeep neither. Ping @Silvanus and @probus whose sites run 1.9.0.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/3 "2017-08-04T21:29:24Z")
Hmm I wonder, is this related to @fantasticfears recent change on site settings being per-locale? cc @sam
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### Author:  [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/4 "2017-08-04T22:45:29Z")
Everything is working fine with us. We are currently running **v1.9.0.beta2 +101** (yeah I know I’m a bit behind…).
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/5 "2017-08-06T20:46:34Z")
This is bad. Do you have a multi-site installation?
As this is a new change, it won’t affect to you if use a old version.
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### Author:  [@Esko\_Piirainen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Esko_Piirainen)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/6 "2017-08-07T05:34:01Z")
This morning the problem has been fixed!
I’m not the one in our team who set up the forum or usually administrates it, so I’m unsure of the terms, but we are using a hosted site with a Standard plan. The site tracerts to 64.71.168.214.
Perhaps something was fixed..?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/7 "2017-08-07T05:35:32Z")
[This was fixed earlier.](https://meta.discourse.org/t/language-changed-to-japanese-for-multiple-users/67467)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-locale-has-stopped-working/67430/8 "2017-08-07T18:36:23Z")