Very unoptimistic about this change as most other translators on the site are. As much as work towards enabling other communities to thrive is amazing, you guys always seem to neglect those who work hard to fill in the blanks that you leave out.
I appreciate you mentioning that manual localization is better, however it would’ve been great to see you guys push manual translators.
I very much hope that this is the case. I’ve seen some horrendous localization in the past using your solution and if the accuracy is being fixed now, then at least most users won’t suffer trying to play their favorite games.
You claim to “democratize” the feature but how about letting people opt out of it? I know many experiences that have been forced into automatic translations as part of being a top experience and it resulted in their games being essentially killed off because automated translations were that bad. When literally begging the team to opt out of this, the team would give a “oops guess you’ll have to deal with that” response.
While there’s so much cool things that you guys do, you end up neglecting a huge part of the localization portion of the site that gets more and more fed up with how things are handled here. There are bugs on the translator portal that have been persisting for years. We deal with so much spam coming from users who simply don’t understand what a button does with no way of combating it. PLEASE divert some of your resources to make sure that manual localization on the site isn’t this much of a chore.