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Is there some way I can “View latest topics in $myLanguage”, or perhaps auto-translate all the titles?</p> <p>Example of what I’m seeing (unfortunately I only speak English):<br> <div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a.jpeg" data-download-href="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a" title="IMG_9651"><img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/optimized/2X/e/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a_2_231x500.jpeg" alt="IMG_9651" data-base62-sha1="wFc13kxy9EqThLsGcK9dvP0o8Fc" width="231" height="500" srcset="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/optimized/2X/e/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a_2_231x500.jpeg, https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/optimized/2X/e/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a_2_346x750.jpeg 1.5x, https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/optimized/2X/e/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a_2_462x1000.jpeg 2x" data-dominant-color="F0F0EE"><div class="meta"> <svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">IMG_9651</span><span class="informations">1242×2688 337 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg> </div></a></div></p> <p>(The URL being: <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/latest" class="inline-onebox">OpenStreetMap Community Forum</a>)</p> <p>Cheers</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Likes</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_2' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/Matija_Nalis'><span itemprop='name'>Matija_Nalis</span></a> (Matija Nalis) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-07-30T23:33:54Z' class='post-time'> July 30, 2023, 11:33pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-07-31T01:28:00Z'> <span itemprop='position'>2</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="arctic-rocinante" data-post="1" data-topic="101864"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/arctic-rocinante/48/31757_2.png" class="avatar"> arctic-rocinante:</div> <blockquote> <p>The forum’s “View latest topics” feature is essentially unusable for me</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>I’m afraid its not just you. While Discourse is better than most forums in that regard, transparent translations are still just a dream.</p> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="arctic-rocinante" data-post="1" data-topic="101864"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/arctic-rocinante/48/31757_2.png" class="avatar"> arctic-rocinante:</div> <blockquote> <p>Is there some way I can “View latest topics in $myLanguage”, or perhaps auto-translate all the titles?</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Unfortunately, no translation of thread title, see <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/translation-of-thread-title/6326" class="inline-onebox">Translation of thread title</a> - but do go on the links mentioned there and add your like for support of that feature, so maybe Discourse will add it someday.</p> <p>I’m afraid the best you could do is either:</p> <ul> <li>clicking on posts one by one and translating each one (disadvantage is additional waste of your time, as not only extra clicks, but also you’d have to read at least the start of article instead of just its title)</li> <li>muting categories that are likely to have vast majority posts in non-english (e.g. Deutschland, Nederland, Polska…) (with disadvantage that you’ll miss occasional English post, but even more, that you’ll miss all the interesting discussion which are happening in language that happens NOT to be English)</li> <li>using some external translator website, like you would for any other site that doesn’t have translation (disadvantage: popular ones are evil, and you’ll still have to cycle through languages)</li> <li>give up on <em>“View latest topics”</em>, follow <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM">weeklyOSM</a> instead and hope interesting topics will be mentioned there, so you can then jump in those that interest you too. (this is what I do most of the time, although I do sometimes ending up doing the first bullet point)</li> <li>use <em>“Unread”</em> instead of <em>“View latest topics”</em>, and add watching/tracking in your preferences (see e.g. <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mute-communities-subcategories-by-default/3335/2" class="inline-onebox">Mute Communities subcategories by default? - #2 by nukeador</a>)</li> <li>or you can learn several other popular additional languages, and the problem goes away (disadvantage: might take some time; but it might end up being useful even outside of OSM <img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/smile.png?v=12" title=":smile:" class="emoji" alt=":smile:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20">)</li> </ul> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="3" /> <span class='post-likes'>3 Likes</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_3' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/ezekielf'><span itemprop='name'>ezekielf</span></a> (Zeke Farwell) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-07-31T01:20:20Z' class='post-time'> July 31, 2023, 1:20am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-07-31T01:20:20Z'> <span itemprop='position'>3</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>I suggest muting categories for languages you don’t speak. This will hide them from the aggregate views (Latest, New, etc). Have a look at this topic for more discussion on this issue:</p><aside class="quote quote-modified" data-post="1" data-topic="3335"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/ezekielf/48/606_2.png" class="avatar"> <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mute-communities-subcategories-by-default/3335">Mute Communities subcategories by default?</a> <a class="badge-category__wrapper " href="/c/site-feedback/issues/36"><span data-category-id="36" style="--category-badge-color: #d02e43; --category-badge-text-color: #FFFFFF; --parent-category-badge-color: #fee97d;" data-parent-category-id="2" data-drop-close="true" class="badge-category --has-parent" title="Report issues with this Discourse site and also request new features, categories or changes."><span class="badge-category__name">🐞 This forum issues and requests</span></span></a> </div> <blockquote> Continuing the discussion from <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/mute-switch-off-categories/2531">Mute/switch off categories?</a>: I’m finding that with the increasing number of geographic categories on this forum, it’s becoming harder for me to keep track of the topics that are relevant to me in the main Latest view. It looks like I can mute the categories I don’t want to show up there so I’ll go do that. However, I’m wondering if it is possible to have community subcategories muted by default, letting users opt in to to the ones they are interested rather than… </blockquote> </aside> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="4" /> <span class='post-likes'>4 Likes</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_4' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/arctic-rocinante'><span itemprop='name'>arctic-rocinante</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-07-31T02:52:19Z' class='post-time'> July 31, 2023, 2:52am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-07-31T02:52:19Z'> <span itemprop='position'>4</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Thank you both for the info. I’ll try muting the high-traffic non-English communities for now, and hopefully Discourse’s support for multiple languages will improve in the future <img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12" title=":slight_smile:" class="emoji" alt=":slight_smile:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Likes</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_5' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/grin'><span itemprop='name'>grin</span></a> (Peter Gervai) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T09:41:49Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 9:41am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T09:41:49Z'> <span itemprop='position'>5</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Right now all languages of the known world and some more is mashed together in this Discourse instance. It means that using any browsing technique (<strong>top, new, latest</strong>, etc) result 90% of the threads in a foreign language. While it’s encouraging that people think I could learn them all it needs a bit more time than I have handy to browse the topics here and now.</p> <p>Is there any way to see only English posts (or, to generalise, to see posts in a given language)?</p> <p>Apart from <em>manually</em> clicking through <em>categories</em> (and not all languages have categories), obviously.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_6' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/Tordanik'><span itemprop='name'>Tordanik</span></a> (Tobias Knerr) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T09:51:05Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 9:51am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T09:51:05Z'> <span itemprop='position'>6</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Sadly, I believe the only solution to (mostly) achieve this is still to mute the categories of local communities which typically communicate in languages you do not understand. You can do so in your preferences in the “tracking” tab.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_7' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/grin'><span itemprop='name'>grin</span></a> (Peter Gervai) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T09:55:42Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 9:55am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T09:55:42Z'> <span itemprop='position'>7</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>That is basically equivalent to “discourse cannot do that”. <img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/slightly_frowning_face.png?v=12" title=":slightly_frowning_face:" class="emoji" alt=":slightly_frowning_face:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p> <p>Could work if it was possible to select “active” categories, I guess, instead of permanently muting everything else. Well, muting seems to be the best current hack around, I’ll try it anyway. <img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/man_shrugging.png?v=12" title=":man_shrugging:" class="emoji" alt=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p> <p>Thanks!</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_8' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/arctic-rocinante'><span itemprop='name'>arctic-rocinante</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T09:57:18Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 9:57am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T09:57:18Z'> <span itemprop='position'>8</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Recent discussion on the topic:</p><aside class="quote quote-modified" data-post="1" data-topic="101864"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/arctic-rocinante/48/31757_2.png" class="avatar"> <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/view-latest-topics-in-my-language/101864">“View latest topics” in my language?</a> <a class="badge-category__wrapper " href="/c/site-feedback/issues/36"><span data-category-id="36" style="--category-badge-color: #d02e43; --category-badge-text-color: #FFFFFF; --parent-category-badge-color: #fee97d;" data-parent-category-id="2" data-drop-close="true" class="badge-category --has-parent" title="Report issues with this Discourse site and also request new features, categories or changes."><span class="badge-category__name">🐞 This forum issues and requests</span></span></a> </div> <blockquote> Hello, The forum’s “View latest topics” feature is essentially unusable for me as most of the titles are in languages I don’t understand. Is there some way I can “View latest topics in $myLanguage”, or perhaps auto-translate all the titles? Example of what I’m seeing (unfortunately I only speak English): <a class="lightbox" href="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a.jpeg" data-download-href="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/e4eda551c571799bbf33ced236bd40dd88e94d3a" title="IMG_9651">[IMG_9651]</a> (The URL being: <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/latest" class="inline-onebox">OpenStreetMap Community Forum</a>) Cheers </blockquote> </aside> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Like</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_9' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/grin'><span itemprop='name'>grin</span></a> (Peter Gervai) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T10:00:49Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 10:00am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T10:00:49Z'> <span itemprop='position'>9</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Tordanik" data-post="6" data-topic="101864"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/tordanik/48/1547_2.png" class="avatar"> Tordanik:</div> <blockquote> <p>mute the categories of local communities</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>I muted “<strong>Communities</strong>” category altogether, and hope that it only contains foreign communities and not ones like HOT… <img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=12" title=":roll_eyes:" class="emoji" alt=":roll_eyes:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p> <p>Maybe there ought to be a “Non-English threads” category, or tag to be muted.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_10' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/SekeRob'><span itemprop='name'>SekeRob</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T10:01:02Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 10:01am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T10:01:02Z'> <span itemprop='position'>10</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>If it ain’t possible, certainly a feature request to rather select the communities you want to see than to not see. Sort of a prime selector of first want to see all (default) and than unselect those you don’t or the inverse, select a general no and then pick the once you want, which would be about 6-7. Unselecting dozens is ‘involved’.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_11' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/grin'><span itemprop='name'>grin</span></a> (Peter Gervai) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T10:02:16Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 10:02am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T10:02:16Z'> <span itemprop='position'>11</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>(I have muted <strong>Community</strong> categories since, as of today, it contains almost only non-English threads. Well, apart from USA, but I guess <em>Usans</em> can set it to watched and hope that it’ll override muting.)</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_12' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/grin'><span itemprop='name'>grin</span></a> (Peter Gervai) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T10:03:28Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 10:03am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T10:03:28Z'> <span itemprop='position'>12</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="SekeRob" data-post="10" data-topic="101864"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/sekerob/48/3245_2.png" class="avatar"> SekeRob:</div> <blockquote> <p>certainly a feature request</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Shall I spell it out as <em>FEATURE REQUEST</em>? <img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/grin.png?v=12" title=":grin:" class="emoji" alt=":grin:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_13' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/nukeador'><span itemprop='name'>nukeador</span></a> (Rubén Martín) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T11:15:54Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 11:15am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T11:15:54Z'> <span itemprop='position'>13</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>I’m merging both conversations since they talk about how to see content just in one language(s).</p> <p>My workaround for this is to edit my sidebar to include the categories I care about, by doing this, I have a quick way to see what’s new or unread. Also I track the categories I care the most to read so I can go to <a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/unread">/unread</a> and get a full list with only the content I want.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Like</span> </div> <div class='crawler-linkback-list' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/ItemList'> <div itemprop='itemListElement' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/ListItem'> <a itemprop='url' href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/email-links-point-to-the-old-topic-when-merged/102538">Email links point to the old topic when merged</a> <meta itemprop='position' content='2'> </div> </div> </div> <div id='post_14' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/nukeador'><span itemprop='name'>nukeador</span></a> (Rubén Martín) Split this topic </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T11:25:49Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 11:25am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T11:25:49Z'> <span itemprop='position'>14</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>A post was split to a new topic: <a href="/t/email-links-point-to-the-old-topic-when-merged/102538">Email links point to the old topic when merged</a></p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_15' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/grin'><span itemprop='name'>grin</span></a> (Peter Gervai) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T11:38:43Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 11:38am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T11:38:43Z'> <span itemprop='position'>15</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="nukeador" data-post="13" data-topic="101864"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/nukeador/48/8447_2.png" class="avatar"> nukeador:</div> <blockquote> <p>I’m merging both conversations</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Aren’t that seriously hindering searchability? (My keyword was “english”, not “my language”.)</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_16' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/nukeador'><span itemprop='name'>nukeador</span></a> (Rubén Martín) </span> <link itemprop="image" href="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f655a3d4bb029119840751cb60ec8152937b561e.png"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T12:54:03Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 12:54pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T12:54:03Z'> <span itemprop='position'>16</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="grin" data-post="15" data-topic="101864"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/user_avatar/community.openstreetmap.org/grin/48/598_2.png" class="avatar"> grin:</div> <blockquote> <p>Aren’t that seriously hindering searchability? (My keyword was “english”, not “my language”.)</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Not really, since this topic seems to be the first result when searching:</p> <p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f655a3d4bb029119840751cb60ec8152937b561e.png" data-download-href="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/f655a3d4bb029119840751cb60ec8152937b561e" title="imagen"><img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/optimized/2X/f/f655a3d4bb029119840751cb60ec8152937b561e_2_690x213.png" alt="imagen" data-base62-sha1="z9aWjjzkdjm7wTjM17PLbCN8Jxs" width="690" height="213" srcset="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/optimized/2X/f/f655a3d4bb029119840751cb60ec8152937b561e_2_690x213.png, https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f655a3d4bb029119840751cb60ec8152937b561e.png 1.5x, https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f655a3d4bb029119840751cb60ec8152937b561e.png 2x" data-dominant-color="2A2B2B"><div class="meta"><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">imagen</span><span class="informations">1000×309 29 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div></p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_17' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/grin'><span itemprop='name'>grin</span></a> (Peter Gervai) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T13:39:28Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 1:39pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T13:39:28Z'> <span itemprop='position'>17</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>…except nether title nor snippet contains relevant(-looking) quotes. Just based on my experience as of today when I have tried to look up answers before asking. It seems obvious to me that unfortunately Discourse cannot replace stackexchange-like QA sites, since it is extremely disorganised. <img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/slightly_frowning_face.png?v=12" title=":slightly_frowning_face:" class="emoji" alt=":slightly_frowning_face:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_18' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.openstreetmap.org/u/nukeador'><span itemprop='name'>nukeador</span></a> (Rubén Martín) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2023-08-16T16:52:45Z' class='post-time'> August 16, 2023, 4:52pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2023-08-16T16:52:45Z'> <span itemprop='position'>18</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Let’s move issues with search to a separate topic over <a class="hashtag-cooked" href="/c/site-feedback/issues/36" data-type="category" data-slug="issues" data-id="36" data-ref="site-feedback:issues"><span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"></span><span><img src="https://community-cdn.openstreetmap.org/images/emoji/twitter/lady_beetle.png?v=12" title=":lady_beetle:" class="emoji" alt=":lady_beetle:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"> This forum issues and requests</span></a>, it would be useful to see examples of the searches you tried, what you got and what you expected to get instead, thanks!</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="container wrap"> <nav class='crawler-nav'> <ul> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/' itemprop="url">Home </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/categories' itemprop="url">Categories </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/guidelines' itemprop="url">Guidelines </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use' itemprop="url">Terms of Service </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy' itemprop="url">Privacy Policy </a> </span> </li> </ul> </nav> <p class='powered-by-link'>Powered by <a href="https://www.discourse.org">Discourse</a>, best viewed with JavaScript enabled</p> </footer> <div class="buorg"><div>Unfortunately, <a href="https://www.discourse.org/faq/#browser">your browser is unsupported</a>. 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