Lemmy should support multiple default languages for posting and viewing
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Right now, Lemmy only lets you pick one language to see and forces you to manually choose a language every time you post. Because of that, most posts end up marked as “undetermined,” so filtering by language hides most content.
It would make more sense if:
- You could set multiple preferred languages to view posts and comments.
- You could set a default posting language instead of picking it every time.
- The initial language settings were auto-filled based on browser or system language.
This would make the language functionality much more useful.
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Right now, Lemmy only lets you pick one language to see and forces you to manually choose a language every time you post. Because of that, most posts end up marked as “undetermined,” so filtering by language hides most content.
It would make more sense if:
- You could set multiple preferred languages to view posts and comments.
- You could set a default posting language instead of picking it every time.
- The initial language settings were auto-filled based on browser or system language.
This would make the language functionality much more useful.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you can select multiple viewing languages. It's just slightly unintuitive in lemmy-ui: hold either CTRL or SHIFT (I forgot, apologies) while you select languages in your profile settings.
The default posting language/allowed languages are decided on community level by mods.
Edit: didn't want to just say unintuitive without offering an alternative, so: visible checkboxes would maybe be more intuitive?
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Right now, Lemmy only lets you pick one language to see and forces you to manually choose a language every time you post. Because of that, most posts end up marked as “undetermined,” so filtering by language hides most content.
It would make more sense if:
- You could set multiple preferred languages to view posts and comments.
- You could set a default posting language instead of picking it every time.
- The initial language settings were auto-filled based on browser or system language.
This would make the language functionality much more useful.
i did not set a language, so i see all languages
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Correct me if I'm wrong but you can select multiple viewing languages. It's just slightly unintuitive in lemmy-ui: hold either CTRL or SHIFT (I forgot, apologies) while you select languages in your profile settings.
The default posting language/allowed languages are decided on community level by mods.
Edit: didn't want to just say unintuitive without offering an alternative, so: visible checkboxes would maybe be more intuitive?
Wow, finally I figured that out, thank you.