Automatic Translation on DevForum

It is not supported in my language (Turkish) but I have concerns about it:

ROBLOX’s language translator/AI is terrible for Turkish. If I change the language in the account settings, all of ROBLOX will be translated into terrible Turkish. I think I’ll stick with my current translation when necessary. I still wonder why they don’t work with a good translation solution or human translator.

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This has irritated me since day 1, including the automatic documention translation. Please let us turn it off completely, no hitting toggles every time. Some of us can speak more than one language and would rather not deal with the AI’s best guess. I

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Does this technically mean that we’re allowed to speak any language in the international categories now, or does it mean that people can speak any language on the english forum?

Seems like it makes the international categories kind of useless.

It could just be me, but I see cases in which people would want these to be separate.

This is also a downside, why limit to languages only supported by the Roblox website when you already had working interfaces for the forum?

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wonder if we could get auto-banning on the main platform…

some “specific” games could use it ngl…

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Great update! Considering many other forums already have this its good to see the DevForum is getting this too. I have a few concerns over things being translated incorrectly but I think it should be mostly fine as long as the translation is as good as most websites.

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I agree, I would love to have a toggle in forum settings for language to be able to imorove my reading abilities in another language without having my app/site language not in English

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Honestly I never thought of doing that before.

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Wird die Funktion darauf hinauslaufen das jeder nur eine eingestellte Sprache angezeigt bekommt oder kann man zum eigenen vervollständigen mehrere Sprachen benutzen ( Da bei vielen Übersetzungen es oft der Fall ist das nach der Übersetzung dem Inhalt des selben Textes ein anderer Sinn entsprießt , daher ist es oft hilfreich den originalen Text zu sehen um (..von der AI/KI nicht gut verarbeitet..) auf diverse Missverständnisse der mentalen Eigenheiten mancher Sprachen einzugehen oder Missverständnisse auszuräumen
?

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Fix your translator before adding more translate features! (Problem might be ruining kids lives)

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Вы собираетесь добавить переводчик в документацию?

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This is a really nice feature, thanks, but how do I use English on roblox.com and my native language here? Will this be possible in the future? This is important to me.

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This effect is a bit poor.
You can’t select a single item to restore to the pre - translation state. Also, you can’t restore to the pre - translation state at any time. If you restore the translation, it will jump back to the top instead of returning to the reading position. Moreover, it can only translate the first few replies, and the rest of them won’t be translated.

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We’re not translating the international categories for now. If you’re a member, those will always appear in their original language.

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Ah, good point, let me see if we can fix that.

My interface language is set to English for a reason, yet nearly everything is translated…
Besides containing errors, I simply did not ask for it here.

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Its cause nobody needs tranlation for this globally spoken language

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Why even bring Israel to here…

Very cool and useful for international peeps to understand eachother without using an external translator.

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Try changing your www language instead.

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That also affects games I’ve localised. The experience and description will then be in English as well.
Could technically swap back and forth every time, but that’s far from ideal - especially when it worked before :grimacing:

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