When can we have real language support in Steem?
This is a point I've been trying to raise several times: to have a good user experience with lots of different languages, users need to be able to define language of their posts and filter posts based on languages they are written in.
This shouldn't be too hard to do.
The Steem community is becoming more global and more non-English languages are written. So why not make the life easier for everybody and let users find posts in certain languages and filter out the ones they don't understand?
For me this has been must-have feature for a long time. I just can't understand what's so hard about it.
Check out better explanation from my comments on Github: Add first class support for languages in posts. If you agree and have Github account, please leave comment demanding this to be implemented soon so that the devs understand how important this is.
I just read a post that examined the languages used on Steemit. English was at least 90 percent of all posts. There is now Golos.com and soon Yoyow so it might be better if each language group made their own language specific Steemit. Great post @samupaha
I've said the same thing many times over.
It's one of those things that should be easy to implement using tags at least.
If the language is indicated by tags, they should be special tags just for languages. From UI perspective that might be easiest to do: just let users put an extra tag for the language in the tag box.
To differentiate language tag from normal tags, something like doublehashtag could be used (like ##eng).
Precisely. If we were then allowed to automatically add this tag to our posts and to exclude posts with other language tags, then the problem would pretty much be solved.
Something for @good-karma of eSteem , @jesta of beta.chainbb.com , the @zappl team and @fabien of Busy.org to consider.
It's not a huge problem yet, but as the community grows, it certainly will. Cheers
@silverbug
I think it is a problem because it prevents growth of the global community. A lot of people who are not fluent in writing English don't join and use Steem.
But you must take into account that English is the most commonly spoken language.
thats wrong tho
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/blog/the-15-most-spoken-languages-in-the-world/
Chinese has almost 200 million more speakers
I think we are taking that into account. It doesn't help those who don't speak it.
But that aside, many users are just not comfortable using a platform unless it's in their own language even if they speak the other perfectly.
When an app can't detect or at least be adapted to the common language used in your own geographic area, lot's of people get a feeling that the site is not made for them, or is less professional and less trustworthy.
Yeah, but there is still a huge crowd who don't have enough writing skills to take part in Steem community in its current form.
They will come to join if they have an easy way to communicate with their preferred language.
I think this is a very low-hanging fruit, there isn't any technological innovations that are needed, just add some menus for users.
nice....your post deserve upvote and resteem....
I think separate chains for each country would work best. Now the reward pool is shared, and if some hypothetical language user base was 1/100 of that of English, the voterbase would be 100x smaller, there would be 100x less votes, and the rewards would be 10,000 times smaller on average and in total. Even so, I think you are right. Mixing all the languages just doesn't work, and prevents language-specific communities from forming.
Separate chains might be a little bit too much decentralization. That would mean separate accounts and private keys. There wouldn't be a global Steem economy, instead it would be one big English speaking community and a lot of smaller ones.
Maybe better idea would be to adjust reward pool distribution among different languages, although I'm not sure how easy that would be.
What if the separate islands shared an underlying Economic Operating System
That might work!
would such islands achieve End Of Separation?
Good thing to prepare for in growing Steemit!
I wonder if this is part of the 2017 roadmap under "Design Language Overhaul" for Q4. Maybe @andrarchy knows?
AFAIK it's completely different thing.
https://steem.io/2017roadmap.pdf
I see there's been a fair amount of activity on Github since January. I'm hoping for more developer communication so we can all stay up to speed on the technical roadmap and what the team is working on. Often times a simple feature request board (my company uses this one) helps everyone know what is a priority. It also helps balance and community community priorities.
Nice board you have! Something like that would definitely benefit Steem, too.
I think it doesnt the matter. Many application that help em to understand. Eventhough im not good enough in English. Google translation is the to solve it.