There is no reason to try to limit the feature to a category… Unless you have a lot of topics and consider the cost of translating everything :sweat_smile: This is why we were thinking to stick to one category. [image] Discourse Translator Translations will not be offered if your chosen inte…

The cost is a good point that I hadn’t considered. We use microsoft’s translation service and have never had to pay for it, but then the site I set this up for is fairly small. Maybe limiting translations by category is indeed a valid feature request. Personally I’ve also never really fully underst…

Here’s how I did the cost estimate for my forum. All of the queries are for the Data Explorer . Estimate the average number of characters per post The plugin sends the cooked text to the translation service last I checked. SELECT AVG(LENGTH(p.cooked)) FROM posts AS p JOIN topics AS t ON p.topic…

This reply is so awesome! Very detailed @lee-dohm so I moved it out of the translator topic so it doesn’t get deleted and it can be useful to others.

Thanks for this guide. I have two questions: based on this: [image] Discourse Translator Translations will not be offered if your chosen interface language is the same as the language used to write a post. It might be nice to still correlate the data from the users.locale field and get a %…

How to estimate the cost of translation using the translator plugin

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lee-dohm (Lee Dohm) November 24, 2020, 6:19pm 6

I didn’t do any tracking after we decided to launch, so I’m not sure if that impacted anything, no. But yes, including your query into the cost estimate would be good

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