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Changelog: Language detection and segmentation

Ben Halpern on November 17, 2017

This is something we had been steadily thinking about and/or working on for a while, but the influx of new Japanese members encouraged us to ship s...
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Alexey Voinov

I'd suggest not to change the language settings based on geolocation. :) A lot of people for some unknown reason does it. It is very surprising to see an interface in some new language every time you cross the border. (And here, in Europe it happens relatively often) :)

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Ben Halpern

Yes, we do not change any language settings based on geolocation. We use different, and better signals, to make a guess upon signing up, hopefully with few false positives. But then any adjustments are up to you in the settings.

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Lorenzo Pasqualis

Cool! Any chances that you will support Italian as one of the languages?

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Ben Halpern

Pushing it up now! The cut off is pretty arbitrary at this point, so happy to take requests. English, Japanese and to a lesser extent Spanish, are the only languages that have any kind of traction on the platform.

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Lorenzo Pasqualis

Awesome, thank you. I might be able to bring some Italian folks to the site over time.

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Gergő Móricz

How about Hungarian?

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Ben Halpern

Sure thing, but it'll have to wait til Monday because I've moved onto other work for today. 😁

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John Best

As a Francophone, I thank you.

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Ben Halpern

C'est notre plaisir

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Sylvain Marty

Moi aussi, je serai ravis d'aider de quelque façon que ce soit ! :)

PS: I learn so much english when I surf on this website ! <3

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John Best

Je suis américain mais j'espère pouvoir bien parler français.

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Sylvain Marty

The more you practise, the best you'll read and speak ;)

This is working with english for me but it gonna work with all human/programmation languages! :)

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John Best

Mais oui. Merci.

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John Best

S'il vous plaît laissez-moi savoir si je peux aider à traduire.

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István Lantos

When I'm first opening dev.to from facebook links, I've got 404, after refresh, the articles will load. FIY if it's a possible bug that maybe not caused my PC.

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Sylvain Marty

I got this bug a few month ago! I contacted them via the contact form. They gave me a response pretty quickly though, thanks to @andy and the dev.to team which is very reactive to its community! :)

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hey István, gonna send you an email. Thanks for mentioning me @martyonthefly !

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István Lantos

I made my email address public on my profile. I don't have so much a problem with it, but maybe it's a bug and I'm just reporting it.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Yeah, thanks for that. Think I know what the issue is. Feel free to make your email private again if you'd like.

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Fernando Sávio

Nice feature!
Will there be a way to hint the language used on a post? Like a lang: pt-BR in Front-Matter?

And how about brazilian portuguese support? I really don't know how many brazilians post here, I'm just curious. :)