Hi friends. I am doing a new discourse setup and found that the About page (faqs, terms of service, and privacy) is in Chinese (also some default posts). It seems that the discourse is created under a Chinese network. Is there any settings that help change the default language so they just turn in…

[image] Update seeded categories and topics Wizard Changing the default language in the wizard will automatically translate all seeded categories and topics as long as you didn’t already edit them manually. Have you tried this? If you run [YourSite]/wizard and select the version of English you…

and is there any way I can delete the official topics

I think this topic may be useful: [image] Update seeded categories and topics megaphoneAnnouncements Discourse ships with a couple of categories and topics, but they usually are in English. No matter what language your forum is using. That is going to change. …

[image] Update seeded categories and topics Up until now configuring DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE in app.yml was the only way to change that. And you had to do it before bootstrapping the container. The seeded categories, FAQs, and terms of service come in Chinese and this really bothers me. That …

Thanks a lot. The replace text button helps!

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JammyDodger July 25, 2022, 6:21am 3

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