Ability to mark a post's written language

[leomeloxp]

Summary

I've seen you have options for languages to see in my feed, how can I define that my post is written in a given language?

dev.to seems to have a good (hopefully increasing) number of Portuguese readers but I have no idea on how I could look for articles written in Portuguese myself.

Request or User Story

It would be really useful if we had the ability to indicate that our posts are written in a given language and then the ability to filter posts by their language.

For the writer: When creating a new post, to have the ability to pick a language or locale in which my post will be written in, eg Portuguese, PT_Br, 🇧🇷 / 🇵🇹.

For the reader: Ability to filter posts by a given language, using tags or similar feature, or make use of the language checkbox in the Misc Settings area.

Definition of Done

For the writter: See the ability to indicate the language of my post by using frontmatter or similar.

For the reader: Ability to filter posts by language or set preference to which languages to see on my feed first.

Notes

My main reason for requesting this feature is that I think there's tons of excellent content on dev.to in English already, but for other languages (that I speak) maybe not so much and I would love to be able to provide some of that content but it would be much better if I could highlight the fact that the post is aimed at speakers of a given language (for both the writer and the reader).

[benhalpern]

Thanks for the feedback @leomeloxp. Currently we auto-detect languages for posts and have features for allowing people to see or not see certain languages, but we never really got these features all the way there. They're basically sitting half-done in beta, but let this be a reminder that we need to improve the overall user experience in this regard.

So we'll definitely take this into account, but the big part is that we need to actually finish the things we have in the works in this regard. I'll let you know when we get this stuff out the door. 🙂

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[leomeloxp]

@benhalpern are there any news on this front? (sorry for the direct nudging but the issue was going to be automatically closed otherwise).

I've seen that there are a few issues revolving around i18n and multi-language content, eg #247 #890 #304 (the ones I could find with a quick search).

Now that dev.to has been fully open sourced it might be slightly easier to approach these issues as more developers that speak multiple languages would be able to provide input, triaging and feedback.

Keen to hear anything you have to say on the matter.

[jessleenyc]

Hey @leomeloxp, thanks for bringing this up again. We created a new issue to fix the existing functionality: #1308

This should allow us to auto-detect the language like Ben mentioned above. Closing this issue since it seems like #1308 will address your feature request. Thanks again for bringing it back up.