How to translate reading time in preview links

discojan · April 7, 2026, 11:14pm

When you share a link and a preview is generated.

I can’t find this string “mins” when searching on Crowdin Enterprise

Moin · April 8, 2026, 5:52am

I don’t think it’s on Crowdin. “mins” was written into the code

app/helpers/application_helper.rb

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            .each do |breadcrumb|
              result << tag(:meta, property: "og:article:section", content: breadcrumb[:name])
              result << tag(:meta, property: "og:article:section:color", content: breadcrumb[:color])
            end
          Array
            .wrap(opts[:tags])
            .each { |tag_name| result << tag(:meta, property: "og:article:tag", content: tag_name) }
          
          if opts[:read_time] && opts[:read_time] > 0 && opts[:like_count] && opts[:like_count] > 0
            result << tag(:meta, name: "twitter:label1", value: I18n.t("reading_time"))
            result << tag(:meta, name: "twitter:data1", value: "#{opts[:read_time]} mins 🕑")
            result << tag(:meta, name: "twitter:label2", value: I18n.t("likes"))
            result << tag(:meta, name: "twitter:data2", value: "#{opts[:like_count]} ❤")
          end
          
          if opts[:published_time]
            result << tag(:meta, property: "article:published_time", content: opts[:published_time])
          end
          
          result << tag(:meta, property: "og:ignore_canonical", content: true) if opts[:ignore_canonical]

discojan · April 8, 2026, 9:27am

so someone forgot to make it localizable. Hopefully they do so.

Moin · April 8, 2026, 9:33am

The plural can also lead to unexpected English results:
“Reading time: 1 mins ”

zogstrip · April 8, 2026, 9:56am

Thank you both @discojan & @Moin - this will be fixed by

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: Make twitter card meta data translatable (#39150)

main ← fix/translatable-twitter-card-meta-data

merged 04:40PM - 08 Apr 26 UTC

ZogStriP

+48 -2

The reading time and likes values in twitter card meta tags were hard-coded Engl…ish strings ("X mins 🕑" and "X ❤"). This made them impossible to translate on Crowdin and also caused incorrect pluralization ("1 mins" instead of "1 min"). Replace the hard-coded strings with I18n.t calls using new `reading_time_minutes` and `likes_count` translation keys with proper `one`/`other` pluralization. https://meta.discourse.org/t/400164

Moin · April 9, 2026, 3:19pm

I get the impression that the icon didn’t handle the move from Crowdin to GitHub very well. Is that a problem, or will it still work?

The English file shows

github.com/discourse/discourse

config/locales/server.en.yml

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          one: "%{count} min 🕑"
          other: "%{count} mins 🕑"

But in the PR from Crowdin, it looks like this:

github.com/discourse/discourse

config/locales/server.fr.yml

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          one: "%{count} minute \U0001F551"
          other: "%{count} minutes \U0001F551"

github.com/discourse/discourse

config/locales/server.es.yml

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          one: "%{count} minuto \U0001F551"
          other: "%{count} minutos \U0001F551"

zogstrip · April 9, 2026, 3:21pm

@gerhard any ideas? ^^

gerhard · April 9, 2026, 7:19pm

Thanks for reporting that. It’s fixed now. The latest PRs contain Emojis.

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