Fedimigration Organizing @slrpnk.net Blaze @lemmy.dbzer0.com 5h ago

PSA for instance admins: new joiners are not shown posts in all languages. Please pin posts about this potential issue, or find another way to explain it to them

Examples

Seems like new joiners don't automatically get all the languages displayed, as it used to be. For Jlai.lu, they only had French. Is this something that can be configured admin-side?

Update: a fix should be available in the coming days

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Languages, lemmy's weakpoint. Most of the time it's left at undetermined for most new users, so i have to keep my posts undetermined so others can see it; it's a vicious cycle.

They should really improve the system :/
- It's really messy, especially with the new wave of people coming here. Lemmy made good progress since the last wave, but this should really be addressed.
  
  Absolutely. I feel there's no excuse to leave such an important feature this broken. At least they should force you to set languages.
  
  Easiest is probably a checkbox selected by default "All languages"
  
  if it's checked, the languages selection is greyed out
  
  if you uncheck, you can start selecting
  
  Yeah i'd say both are good. They should also improve the selector itself, it feels odd having to hold shift or losing all the selected languages
  
  Hey, if you want, I have made a Firefox add-on to automayically remember your last selected language in your posts and comments and auto select it next time! Give it a try! It doesn't really improve much but it's still something!
  
  Oh nice! Did you already post in on !lemmyapps@lemmy.world ? It could probably be helpful for a few people!
  
  That sounds good :) i've already got my languages set but beginners may not know. If i encounter one with this issue i'll link your extension. Thanks :D

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