Everything is translated, help!

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I’m so lost. The language I had selected for the interface on meta.discourse.org contaminated its content.

  • The content of the forum is auto translated, which is very confusing as soon as I’m looking at a topic regarding translations or anything language related;
  • I see no means of disabling this behavior in the UX;
  • Even worse, not everything-everything seems to be translated, some topics randomly seems to still be in english. Language switching is mind-consuming. :exploding_head:

I searched for news about this and found nothing.
I found this plugin which I guess is the culprit if it’s activated in here, but I’m unsure.
I mostly want to make sure this whole thing doesn’t get into the instances I’m managing so I’m posting in UX. Feel free to move this topic to a better place if needed.

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Hey there,

we’ll be publishing some docs regarding this feature very soon.

In the meantime, you can toggle with this button:

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This button only appears in topics with localized posts.

When writing a post, you can also set that you’re writing it in English in the :globe_with_meridians: in the composer. This ideally shouldn’t be necessary, but sometimes the LLM decides (wrongly) that you’re writing in French instead of English.

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Thanks for the answers. Questions left:

  • What is a localized post?
  • I cannot find the :globe_with_meridians: in the composer.

Opinion on UX: this behavior should be manageable in the user settings under language, on top of the toggle button.

PS: nice rickroll!

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I’ll be sharing my initial thoughts after some experimentation, as the team works to finalize the official updates and documentation.

The latest versions of Discourse and the Translator plugin allows to manually select a post’s language.

In the future, I hope to see this automatically identified, perhaps as ‘different than default,’ for greater convenience.

And perhaps is something that will be mixed with IA Personas, you can check their code updates on Github as well :wink: