Comment on Language tag on communities with "default language"
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Finally, while I’m complaining to our beloved great admins. I’ve seen that I tried to write that post in French first, but was blocked due to language setting, c’est dommage pour une instance bilingue
Woops. It appears this community was set to English as the default language. I just enabled Francais in the settings.
I haven’t run all the test by myself and just agreed to be the messenger as someone using SJW. No idea whether it’s just about setting a flag user-side, or whether it’s a very specific lemmy version which enable this discussion.
We will have to look into this. I assume you would prefer that the posts do get automatically tagged as French. Hopefully it is a setting on our side and not some type of bug.
The language settings on Lemmy generally need some work to make them more intuitive, imo. New users are often confused by them.
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
If the community has a default language yes, it would be great to have tagged automatically in the default language
Indeed, this isn’t intuitive (and something you find on the fedi, but less on mainstream social media). Also when using the wrong Language, Lemmy doesn’t return any error but just refuse to accept the post. Which is a great way to confuse anyone.
Thanks for looking at it