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Discussion on: Have you translated your app?

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riidom

My experience on this is kinda limited. But maybe it's a good idea to add translations on demand. So you have german and english as languages. Then you may get a lot of users from let's say Russia. There may be someone among them who is willing to do a translation. The other users can review it. While you are not sure about the quality, you can add an (experimental) behind the language name in the language selection.

In other words, an alternative approach could be to let translations happen from bottom, instead of planning them from top. You'd probably need a way to have the users communicate with you, so you know about demand on languages in first place.

You could also use some sort of telemetry to find out about demand. In language selection, have a text field for "The language I'd use if it were available" and have that sent to you. But there may be pitfalls if people install it repeatedly to "vote" more often, and that can be a rabbit hole of its own.