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Localization
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2015–2022), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Translated error messages are hard to search for fixes onlineUnreviewed
20152026- Mistranslated error messages are hard to understand, sometimes worse than English2020-08-31
- Localized error messages make it hard to find online solutions2019-07-01
- Translated error messages sound weird, so searching for fixes online is hard2019-07-01
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Translated dropdown items are not re-sorted, so countries are hard to find2022-06-02
- Mistranslated error messages are hard to understand, sometimes worse than English2020-08-31
- Localized error messages make it hard to find online solutions2019-07-01
- Translated error messages sound weird, so searching for fixes online is hard2019-07-01
- Searching for visible text lands in string file, not its location on screen2017-06-25
- Translated interfaces have errors and odd word choices that make them harder to use2017-04-23
- Translated terms differ between apps and the OS, so error messages are confusing to match up2015-01-15