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Just as we have available selections for reach (mentioned people, followers, circles, instance, fediverse) and advices about content, we could have a list of allowed languages as an option.
In this way, if it's not the default, the user can specify other.
WDYT? :)
Doug, that seems super interesting and very well aligned indeed.
Your mention of language barriers also makes me trigger another small limitation on other microblogging services that Bonfire could make better: the ability to express the language used, per post.
Many people (me included) uses 2 or more languages.
WDYAT?
That's a really good point, @EduMerco. It would be even better if, as well as providing benefits to others* it was also of value to you as well.
I'm sadly monolingual, but I wonder if you can think of things that would be useful in the composer interface that would benefit the person crafting the message?
* i.e. people can filter by language on their timeline
Sorry Doug it took me some time (just needed focus on work deliverables and events).
Yes, as benefits for the writer I can think at least 2:
As benefits for everyone, as you said, there is filtering and also translations. If we know each person preferred language/s, we can offer translated versions by default for certain languages.
This could be part of each User preferences. That is, each account can specify what language/s:
WDYT? :)
Just as we have available selections for reach (mentioned people, followers, circles, instance, fediverse) and advices about content, we could have a list of allowed languages as an option.
In this way, if it's not the default, the user can specify other.
WDYT? :)
Yeah definitely! This is something I've been wanting to do. Will keep it in mind for our upcoming redesign of the composer.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes