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Machine translation
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Machine translation, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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
- Ambiguous single-word translations of button labels lose context and mislead users2025-03-26
- Auto-translation forced on, so users must translate back to understand2023-12-01
- Translation is very slow, nearly unusable beyond very short sentences2021-02-17
- Translated interface text is so poor the user must mentally reverse it to the English original2021-02-06
- Output is too unreliable to trust for genuine need to understand foreign text2020-09-28
- Translator corrects valid phrasing, confusing beginners who may think their correct wording was wrong2016-06-28
- Currency amounts are mistranslated and confusing because the unit changes without the value being recomputed2013-03-04