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:
- UI appropriate labels and translations where there is text (nothing terribly valuable, really, but smoothing),
- spell checking (although not so easy since today is common to have mixed languages in a toot, but anyway...). Eventually this could create a shared list of words in the instance or a group so as to make a better spellchecking for everyone.
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:
- the UI is preferred.
- the posts are filtered/allowed
- the posts are translated or not by default.
WDYT? :)