I don’t know why, but the site-wide toggle never appears in my instance. Does it require the discourse-translator plugin enabled? Actually… no buttons to translate anything appear at all.

Hello everyone, I’m self-hosting Discourse, I managed to get Ollama to work reasonably well by setting the Discourse AI LLM settings with SambaNova pointing directly to Ollama Server. However, I have some questions… This Icon never appears… [image] And I’m not sure how to translate posts. Als…

Wow… it magically started working after I changed this fields to: AI translation max post length: 20000 AI translation backfill max age days: 50 Strange… Seems to be working quite nicely now. I wonder if translations are also indexable by search engines.

[image] Smooth_Play: it magically started working after I changed this fields Yeah, that’s how it works per Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI [image] Smooth_Play: I wonder if translations are also indexable by search engines Yes, they are!

There is a hidden sure setting named content_localization_max_locales that defaults to 10. You can change it via the rails console.

Please start new topics for new questions.

Why Is the Discourse AI Translation Icon Not Appearing?

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Smooth_Play (Smooth Play ) October 5, 2025, 7:04am 5

Thank you so much for your feedback, so you know if it’s possible to add more than 10 languages? Even if not officially supported?

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