Interface language issue (after invite)

Contribute Bug

AI-generated summary

A user, 4ong, reported an issue with the interface language after accepting an invitation on Discourse. The interface language defaults to the Discourse default language (e.g., English) instead of maintaining the language detected from the browser or used in the invitation (e.g., French or Russian). 4ong considers this a bug, as it’s not user-friendly, especially in communities based on “invitations only” mode.

osioke asked for the Discourse version and a screen recording of the issue, which 4ong provided. osioke acknowledged the issue and stated that it would be looked into.

pmsuraj sees this as a feature request and proposes adding a site setting to save the user locale based on the browser/OS setting on signup. The issue is marked as pr-welcome, but the team doesn’t have the bandwidth to work on it at the moment.

4ong plans to look into the issue and potentially handle it. They also emphasize the importance of maintaining the interface language consistency, especially in multi-language communities, to avoid confusion and ensure a user-friendly experience.

1

Interface language for anonymous user works correctly - by detection of browser language.

Invitation language also works correctly - still the language of anonymous user.

But interface language after - when user accepts invite - automatically became the Discourse default one (f.e. English) interface language.

So members who joins f.e. in French start to see English after the registration by invite.

How to keep the same language as it was in anonymous mode / during the invitation?

An example:
Anonymous user - French
Invitation language - French
after invitation accept, when user is logined in - default, English

How can it be solved?
Thank you!

1 Like
2

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.

2 Likes
3

@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!

1 Like
4

Thank you for the mention! :smiley:

What Discourse version are you running?

And if you have a screen recording of this happening, that would also be very helpful :slight_smile:

5

Thanks @osioke
I use latest Discourse version 2.9.0.beta1
( a1adc13125 )

And it was always like this (as far as I remember).

Here is a screen record of the issue:

It’s short and it shows how interface language became English instead of initial Russian (immediately after invitation accept).

It works like this with invitations accepted with Google/Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn auth.

And with this issue every user needs to navigate and change their language back just after registration by invite.

Thanks!

1 Like
6

Thank you for sharing @4ong really sorry about this, we will look into it.

1 Like
9

Thank you @osioke - I will try to look if I will be able to help too.

1 Like
11

Cool cool. We are already discussing possible ways to resolve this.

1 Like
12

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.

2 Likes
14

Thank you @pmusaraj

Ok - I will take a look if I will be able to handle this.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

2 Likes