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Lemmy should support multiple default languages for posting and viewing (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, finally I figured that out, thank you.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

No problem, glad that we were able to provide you a useful answer. Highly recommend checking out the community blaze linked in a comment below to get an idea how the lang stuff works on lemmy!

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