If it’s a feature request - please move it to a best fit.
I consider this as a bug as it’s really not user friendly for communities based on “invitations only” mode.
@osioke may I ask you to take a brief look on this as well (this topic).
I’m not sure if it’s a bug or intentional functionality, but many users report related complications.
I’m sorry if that’s not your question - I don’t know who to address it to.
Thanks for the detailed report, Anatol. I see this as a feature request, but I do understand the confusion that a user encounters when seeing the site in one language as an anonymous user and another language once they are signed in.
We could use a site setting here that enables saving the user locale based on the browser/OS setting on signup. Currently, we only have the “set interface language for anonymous users from their web browser’s language headers” setting, which is clearly for non-authenticated users.
Marking this as pr-welcome, we don’t have bandwidth at the moment to take on this work, but happy to see it happen.
Ok - I will take a look if I will be able to handle this.
When user don’t know the default language - it can be quite complex for him to go and change the language back to his native.
In multi language communities invites often lead to some particular topic with initial how-to, welcome post…
And that topic (or even whole category) is usually formed in the language of the invitation.
So only interface language changes to default one. And it’s quite inconsistent and not user friendly in this case, imho.