# Still "less sign" is used in the topics list when it makes little sense
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [August 22, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026 "2016-08-22T20:29:08Z")
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/1 "2016-08-22T20:29:08Z")
Not sure if it is a translation problem, or still an issue in the code. As discussed in [this topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-1m-make-any-sensitive-difference-to-1m/48761), the “less sign” makes little to no difference for “\<1m”. However, I just noticed that there are other cases where the “less” sign is used and it makes even less sense:
In this screenshot, “\<29 min” and “\<39 min” looks like overhead: “29min” and “39min” should work just same well and keep formatting unified in the topics list.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/2 "2016-08-22T23:13:32Z")
Is this a localization thing @eviltrout?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/3 "2016-08-23T14:40:08Z")
It looks like this is an error in the translation.
In english `x_minutes` looks like this:
```yml
x_minutes:
one: "1m"
other: "%{count}m"
```
But in Russian it looks like this:
```yml
x_minutes:
one: "1мин"
few: "< %{count}мин"
many: "< %{count}мин"
other: "< %{count}мин"
```
This needs to be corrected in transifex.
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/4 "2016-08-23T14:54:37Z")
Now an interesting observation: those keys were reviewed in the past in Transifex, so theoretically no one were going to look at them at all any time soon.
Is there any way to automatically unreview any keys that get altered in the source code?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/5 "2016-08-23T14:55:41Z")
I’m unfortunately not very familiar with how Transifex works. From my point of view translations magically stream in over time 😛
Maybe someone else like @techAPJ or @neil know more about this?
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/6 "2016-08-23T14:57:50Z")
Thanks.
In the meantime, fixed the translation in Transifex:
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/7 "2016-08-23T15:08:36Z")
This is a question for Transifex. /shrug Who on your translation team reviewed them? Who added the wrong translations? How do you unreview something in Transifex UI? I don’t know.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/8 "2016-08-23T15:43:31Z")
Transifex used to remove the “reviewed” and “translated” status for each changed string during a push. ~~On first glance it looks like it doesn’t do that anymore.~~
But, I think the problem is even worse. According to the resource overview on Transifex `client.en.yml` should be from today.
If you download the English `client.en.yml` from Transifex it contains the translations from August 10th! The last notifications I got from Transifex are also from that date.
So, I guess pushing to Transifex doesn’t work anymore.
@neil Can you check that the correct (latest) locale files where pushed to Transifex? Is it a problem with the `tx` client?
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/9 "2016-08-23T15:51:34Z")
I pushed the source files now. How does it look in Transifex?
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/10 "2016-08-23T16:04:15Z")
Looks good. I got notifications and the locale files are up to date. 👍
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/11 "2016-08-24T08:14:24Z")
> [@gerhard](#):
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> Transifex used to remove the “reviewed” and “translated” status for each changed string during a push.
Does it still work like that?
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 8:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/12 "2016-08-24T08:39:54Z")
I just checked. Yes, it still does work that way.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/still-less-sign-is-used-in-the-topics-list-when-it-makes-little-sense/49026/13 "2017-08-02T01:58:30Z")