So theres a warning “Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.” which doesnt make sense to me when creating a post.
So, do I fill in english or do I leave it as undetermined/Select Language?
I’d like to know too. And also if it’s important we set it, is there a way to make it default to English?
Maybe during signup it should nudge users to set their language preferences.
It might be an instance-dependent or user-setting-dependent thing, but I’ve noticed that my responses default to English.
For the time being, I’ve set my language preferences to these languages:
- Undetermined
- Esperanto
If my hunch is correct, my instance will detect that I haven’t selected a language for this reply and set it to English.
Edit: It didn’t. 😅
Edit 2: I’m stupid. The OP is talking about post creation, and not reply creation. My bad.
If my hunch is correct, my instance will detect that I haven’t selected a language for this reply and set it to English.
Edit: It didn’t. 😅
I also noticed the comments here have no language assigned. I spent quite some time in comment sections where each comment was labelled ‘English’. After a while I stopped carefully labelling mine as ‘English’ manually, and nothing changed. Seems to auto-label. So I was confused that here they don’t.
I’ll label mine manually just for the test.
I think that that warning was only supposed to show up in the profile settings
That’s what I think too. The widget probably got reused, and then later they added that warning but it ended up showing in both places.
I think you’re supposed to choose the languages your used in the post.
Agreed, that warning message is confusing. Also I don’t understand why we should have to select a language at all, since if I’m posting in an English community it should be implied that my post is in English.
I’ve been leaving it as undetermined due to the bizarre warning, but maybe I don’t understand it right.
Oh shoot. I’m glad you posted this as I just made a post and completely misinterpreted the message - I selected “English.” Hopefully that won’t filter it from too many users!
