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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They either need to add check boxes to that scrollable list, or convert it to a dual listbox.

dual listbox example

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

If you know enough to do a pull request on the Lemmy UI they would probably welcome it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I had this problem my first time and I was very confused, I wonder why this thing even exists, what is its purpose?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The idea is to allow people to filter content based on language they can read. It's a good idea in theory,but the execution can be a bit clunky.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

and I think it would be actually very useful if people made use of that setting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Most of Jlai.lu communities are configured to only accept French, so all the posts are automatically tagged

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's for filtering posts by language, but most posts are "Undetermined" because (1) people don't mark the language of their posts and (2) people don't realize you can select more than one language (on PC, you must ctrl+click options to multi-select). If you only speak English, you probably want to select both English and Undetermined.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s for filtering posts by language, but most posts are “Undetermined” because (1) people don’t mark the language of their posts

Because people can’t set a default language for their posts. It’s ridiculous to expect people to select their language over and over again every single time, instead of only changing it quand ils disent en un autre langue.

(And even then, they can’t select multiple options when they mix languages in the same comment, like I just did.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Communities can be configured to automatically tag posts in one language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd love it if there were no preference by default, but that users could set which language they want to see without having "Undetermined" being selected. For some reason it's impossible to deselect Undetermined. After saving it always comes back. Sometimes I just want to read stuff in another language!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It's part of what drove me from lemmy to mbin. That and the autorefresh of the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn’t it default to “browser default” now?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It does, but by doing so it deselects Undetermined. Also, a lot of people speak English on top of their browser's language.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

The next version of Lemmy is going to forcibly enable English by default for everyone, including existing accounts:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5489