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comment by campbell
campbell  ·  4371 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

This got me thinking, what about languages?

If I were to follow someone because they submit good music but they also shared content in French it would be kind of annoying, as I don't understand French at all. I guess it would be easy to ignore as long as the content is consistently tagged #france #french #fr #frenchpolitics, but if the content is about video games it's more likely to be tagged #videogames or #jeuvidéo.

Has any thought been put into this?





speeding_snail  ·  4371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, you could add the possibility to say which language a post is and add a preferred language option under controls. Maybe use google to determine the language?

Anyway, I think that language problems are most likely a localization problem. The problem will not be gone until Hubski is no longer an exclusively english site. And it will most likely not be a focus point...