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I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. FYI - I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" ar

by pg5 2y ago

I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. FYI - I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.

Angostura 2y ago
Which language do you think is most popular in the UK? :)
- Nevermark 2y ago
  Not American! We apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, our specialized app is not authorized to operate or cash checks from your financial center due to a catalog of regionalized legal financial terminology, and therefore, we cannot fulfill a properly personalized vernacular experience. Unfortunately, this language barrier also prohibits any user dialog about future support for your neighborhood. See ya, buddy! Aluminum! /humor (Disclaimer - Not actually associated with the site, but having lived in both countries, I feel so very qualified to clear things up.)
  - lloeki 2y ago
    My tongue in cheek take :) https://ibb.co/8DGyTyK https://ibb.co/8DGyTyK
  - socksy 2y ago
    Fun fact: "-ize" is a valid British spelling (but "-yze", e.g. in "analyze" isn't!) See https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
hedora 2y ago
I’m imagining a version of your app where the artist profile display is a solid color (chosen by the artist), the profile is an audio clip, and when the second person swipes right, it displays a text box that sends a message to the other person. In v2, you could add profile pics, but the hard part would be finding artists similar to previously “liked” ones. Is there a foundation model for music yet? If so, I think it’s just a matter of sticking an embedding for each audio clip into pgvector or whatever. Anyway, since the gui has no text, you get internationalization on day one!
lawlorino 2y ago
IMO English only is better than nothing, support can always be added later. I live in Finland and guess the probability of translation to Finnish is somewhere on the order of 0.1%. It’s also not really needed since a large majority of people here under the age of 50 speak English pretty well.
- pineaux 2y ago
  Same for the Netherlands. Fun fact: a majority of Dutch people prefers to have their apps in English.
arnorhs 2y ago
The internet would have never existed with that kind of thinking. Imagine if every website needed to be translated to 500 languages before you can order a domain. Esp ironic, since I absolutely hate seeing my native language (icelandic) in UI translations... It's rare and when it's translated I have to translate the text to the English counterpart in my head before I grok the thing.
Kiro 2y ago
> I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. Not a valid reason. No-one in my country cares whether an app is translated or not. In fact, I find it kind of patronizing that you feel the need to shelter us like that. I always set the language to English even if the app has first-class translations. > I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists. That's a valid reason.

by pg5 2y ago

I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. FYI - I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.

Angostura 2y ago

Which language do you think is most popular in the UK? :)

Nevermark 2y ago
Not American! We apologize for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, our specialized app is not authorized to operate or cash checks from your financial center due to a catalog of regionalized legal financial terminology, and therefore, we cannot fulfill a properly personalized vernacular experience. Unfortunately, this language barrier also prohibits any user dialog about future support for your neighborhood. See ya, buddy! Aluminum! /humor (Disclaimer - Not actually associated with the site, but having lived in both countries, I feel so very qualified to clear things up.)
- lloeki 2y ago
  My tongue in cheek take :) https://ibb.co/8DGyTyK https://ibb.co/8DGyTyK
- socksy 2y ago
  Fun fact: "-ize" is a valid British spelling (but "-yze", e.g. in "analyze" isn't!) See https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v https://www.oed.com/dictionary/apologize_v & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

hedora 2y ago

I’m imagining a version of your app where the artist profile display is a solid color (chosen by the artist), the profile is an audio clip, and when the second person swipes right, it displays a text box that sends a message to the other person. In v2, you could add profile pics, but the hard part would be finding artists similar to previously “liked” ones. Is there a foundation model for music yet? If so, I think it’s just a matter of sticking an embedding for each audio clip into pgvector or whatever. Anyway, since the gui has no text, you get internationalization on day one!

lawlorino 2y ago

IMO English only is better than nothing, support can always be added later. I live in Finland and guess the probability of translation to Finnish is somewhere on the order of 0.1%. It’s also not really needed since a large majority of people here under the age of 50 speak English pretty well.

pineaux 2y ago
Same for the Netherlands. Fun fact: a majority of Dutch people prefers to have their apps in English.

arnorhs 2y ago

The internet would have never existed with that kind of thinking. Imagine if every website needed to be translated to 500 languages before you can order a domain. Esp ironic, since I absolutely hate seeing my native language (icelandic) in UI translations... It's rare and when it's translated I have to translate the text to the English counterpart in my head before I grok the thing.

Kiro 2y ago

> I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries. Not a valid reason. No-one in my country cares whether an app is translated or not. In fact, I find it kind of patronizing that you feel the need to shelter us like that. I always set the language to English even if the app has first-class translations. > I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists. That's a valid reason.