Comment by jleeky on 23/06/2021 at 18:28 UTC

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No, we just translated the product UI for now. We are exploring translating others things on Reddit down the road.

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Comment by Poopyman80 at 24/06/2021 at 14:35 UTC*

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Make sure any auto translation is opt-IN.

Nothing should ever be opt-OUT.

I say this as someone who has english as third language but who uses it as lingua franca.

The lingua franca should be the default

Comment by Alaira314 at 24/06/2021 at 18:34 UTC

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We are exploring translating others things on Reddit down the road.

Bad idea. Can you imagine the misunderstandings and arguments that would spring out of a mistranslated comment? How would mods handle that, when the words they're seeing in their native language might not match the words you're seeing in your native language, and both are different from the words the original poster typed? Not to mention how uncomfortable it is to me to imagine words I didn't write being attached to my name. Nuance can be very subtle, and I often choose my wording extremely carefully to ensure that I'm saying what I mean to say and not a neighboring concept that's offensive, bigoted, or maybe just incorrect. For example, consider how offensive it is in US english to call someone a black vs a black person. I can control that wording when I'm writing in english, but if I originally wrote in spanish or french and was translated to english, I might come off as racist when what I'd actually written was perfectly respectful...in my own language.

Comment by [deleted] at 24/06/2021 at 14:54 UTC

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DO NOT. I don't want a bunch of auto-translated Americans misunderstanding and ruining other non-English subs because they completely misunderstood what is translated.

Neither do I want anything translated from or to English. EVER. E V E R.

Comment by [deleted] at 15/07/2021 at 01:40 UTC

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Why do you respond to lots of stuff, but never acknowledge the immense amount of negative feedback on the new mobile video player? r/redditmobile is absolutely filled with people who hate it. Nobody likes it. And yet it’s crickets from reddit about it. The least you could do is explain why you won’t listen to all the users who think it is garbage emulating tiktok and it’s even doing that extremely poorly.