Just floating an idea that has been forming over the last few months:-
Since on line translation into many languages is now freely available, with this forum even including a “Translate Button” at the foot of a post, I have been thinking that the “Other Languages” section is now redundant, and could possibly even be viewed as discriminatory.
ANYONE SHOULD FEEL FREE TO POST IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE in the relevant technical section.
In particular, one contributor, posting in English, felt incapable of expressing his problem correctly in that language, so I asked him to post the problem in his own language. Another gentleman was irritated by getting a reply in English to his post.
Have you read how poor the “translation” is?
There are just too many subtleties that do not translate well.
We can’t even get american english into english well.
I have enabled localisations, if you set your default language on the site, even then it does not bridge the gap.
What it does achieve is making it impossible to search for a subject in any language.
Buy a Chinese product. How does that community experience rank?
Personally, the complaints are exhausting. We really have worked hard to create a site that is actually truly unique but still where complaints outweigh everything else.
The only problem I’ve had with translations, is that nothing posted as an image translates. On the subject of US English vs the real English, It is not surprising.
This is only intended as constructive, I have nothing but praise for both this forum and Victron product - I have only a few issues.
And yes, I have dealings with Chinese suppliers, but not Chinese user forums… If I have a problem, I deal directly with their sales staff.
As another, unrelated, forum based request, is it possible to add an underline button?
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This does not seem to be something discourse supports natively.
You can add underlined text with the correct markup.
“[u]underlined[/u]”
underlined
Same applies for strikethrough.
(just delete the quotes)
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