Language auto-selection
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(developer.mozilla.org :: Security, enhancement)
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(Reporter: u680852, Unassigned)
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(Whiteboard: [specification][type:change])
What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
Could you PLEASE remove site language auto-selection based on user locale? Or at least give as a cookie so we don't have to change it to english every single time? English should be default for all users, and if they need to - THEY CAN CHANGE IT THEMSELVES.
I am also triggered because polish translations are THE SHITTIEST (always will be because it's often untranslatable and it is nobody's fault) and bad translations & paraphrases cause damage to process of learning some concept.
In most cases when I read some concept on MDN (firstly polish then english because of you) I see that it's originally untranslatable and polish author could've just used anglicism and not butcher the description with polish idiotic alternatives with weirdly changed form of a word (some of translations I saw just whispered 'kill me') .
And I know that this is a community's input but it's a poor input and you should manage it.
What problems would this solve?
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People will enjoy a documentation in universally known language as they enter the page; will not be forced to change language to default every time.
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Polish people won't be upset anymore with bad translations, unless they decide themselves they want to see them (lol).
Who would use this?
Everyone would appreciate it. Nobody really asked for a chore of changing site language during every visit.
What would users see?
Better world.
What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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This is not security-related. Please use https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues instead.
For the record, MDN uses a cookie. When you use the language selection drop-down, it sets a cookie. Now, independent of your browser's locale, when you go to https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS it will redirect to https://developer.mozilla.org/$YOUR_COOKIE_LOCALE/docs/Web/CSS
However, what might happen is that you're using Google from Poland and Google prefers to serve you the Polish URLs, so you might not notice it but your Google search result was probably something like https://developer.mozilla.org/pl/docs/Web/CSS
Would you be willing to help us spot which Polish translations are too outdated?
Let's meet up on GitHub (issues, discussions, PRs)
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