Multilingual sites: ask for preferred language at registration

There is a VERY strong order of operations problem here.

Yes I want to correct and improve this stuff but:

  • This MUST happen first, Is there any way to let language selector display 'English' instead of 'en'? I find it odd to even be talking about this stuff without this in place.

  • I feel like in many communities the category based “language” selection both solves a big problem with signup and leaves users with less choice which is great.

  • Involving Discobot in a multi lingual interface forum where people generally speak multiple language is a great way of introducing the concept of preference.

  • Whatever solution we come up with for signup should be more inline with what facebook do. Cause plenty of people on the planet have no idea what the glyphs “Language” mean. So how are they expected to even fill out the form.

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