Moin raised concerns regarding a significant number of existing translations being removed in a recent pull request (PR 37499), specifically noting the disappearance of German translations for the Horizon theme, the footnote plugin, and other core features like chat and calendar. While gerhard initially attributed the loss to a separate typo-fixing PR (PR 37428), Moin clarified that many removed strings had not changed and were fully translated on Crowdin, questioning why they were not retained. gerhard acknowledged the confusion and began investigating. After further reports of missing texts post-release, gerhard identified that Crowdin was failing to return all translated strings. He subsequently confirmed the issue was resolved in PR 38145, stating that the removed translations should now be restored.
One example is the German translation for all the texts needed for the high context cards of the Horizon theme. On Meta I now see those texts in English (apart from the date and time)
On my forum that was updated less than 12 hours ago those translations are still available. There is a translation for solved, for replies, for posted, and for replied
I’ll take a look later this week. It’s very unfortunate that we lost so many translations, but I’m not sure if there’s an easy solution to get them back.
Can you explain that in more detail? I understand that the ~20 texts containing typos had or have to be retranslated, because “keep_translations” wasn’t added. But where is the connection to all the other texts I translated in the past weeks that were removed?
For example, the Horizon texts weren’t changed in the PR you referenced. There is no change in the themes folder in the typo PR
If those were removed because the texts changed, wouldn’t they show up on Crowdin for translation again? According to Crowdin, apart from the new setting description, Horizon is fully translated. Solved, posted, and the other texts have their translations as they had in the past weeks.
I would just like to mention that, again, after this release, some translated texts have disappeared. These texts are still present in English but are now missing in other languages.
What was the reason why this was merged instead of waiting until this was fixed? It doesn’t feel like a step forward to remove way more translations than you add.
I’m pretty sure I found and solved the underlying issue. The removed translations should be back. Please let me know if you still see translations that are removed without a good reason.
