RE: Busy new-design & Multilanguage: Call for Translators! by rmz

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busy · @rmz · Oct 12 '17

Before opening the site in a browser-setting language, please confirm this is what the user wants.
It's better than geolocating and deciding the language based on location, which actually sucks monkey balls. But it's still annoying when you're at someone else's pc, or an internet cafe and all off a sudden a site appears in a language you don't understand.

And why not add flags to easily change between languages, there's still room on the page for that?

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@ekitcho · Oct 12 '17

You can select among different languages directly in the Settings page.

Browser language is a good solution, there is no perfect solution. And of course we don't use geolocation.
Adding flags for languages on the main page is not user friendly so we use autodetection + settings to allow more freedom without confirming that the users wants. It's is also more efficient in my opinion than asking everyone.

I don't think you will face a case where you don't speak Chinese, but your Chrome Browser is set to Chinese, so Busy.org will display in Chinese. Unless you're using Busy directly in China, on a internet cafe.

thanks for your input anyway, we re working on improvments on this

👍 paulo.sar

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@rmz · Oct 12 '17

>I don't think you will face a case where you don't speak Chinese, but your Chrome Browser is set to Chinese, so Busy.org will display in Chinese. Unless you're using Busy directly in China, on a internet cafe.

I disagree. I live near Benidorm, you should see all the English in Internet cafes, trying to print their boarding passes. These pc's are normally set so Spanish, you can see people struggle to find the basic information.
While I agree browser detection is a better solution than geolocation, I still feel that besides the detection, language flags are very user friendly. A lot more than going to settings to change the language. Especially since that setting is "hidden" in the menu, I just found it for the first time because of this post ;-)

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@ekitcho · Oct 12 '17

i understand your point. Thanks for your input. The solution for this will probably have to allow user to easily switch language from the homepage instead of going into Settings.

👍 paulo.sar, oguste

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