# What is 'dynaloc'?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-dynaloc/373725
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [July 10, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-dynaloc/373725 "2025-07-10T11:03:31Z")
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2025, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-dynaloc/373725/1 "2025-07-10T11:03:31Z")
I’m curious, what is ‘dynaloc’ and why the #dynaloc tag 🤔? A shot in the dark; is it short for ‘dynamic locales’?
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-dynaloc/373725/2 "2025-07-10T11:36:53Z")
It’s “dynamic (content) localization” 🙂
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-dynaloc/373725/3 "2025-07-10T11:46:55Z")
Ah, not too far off 😉.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-dynaloc/373725/4 "2025-07-10T11:55:01Z")
I wonder if it would be better to use a more descriptive name? IMO something like `auto-translate` would be much easier to understand at a glance.
When I first read `dynaloc`, I saw `dyn-aloc`, which sounds like a memory allocator (like `malloc`, `calloc`, `realloc`, etc.) 😅
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-dynaloc/373725/5 "2025-07-10T12:08:07Z")
That’s fine. Personally I like `content-localization` to be as verbose as possible (also it’s the feature’s site setting prefix), but dynaloc was the internal tag we adopted.
I’ll let it sit for a bit and maybe we’ll switch things up. Appreciate the feedback!