What do I fill into the Language dropdown when creating posts?
So theres a warning "Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content." which doesnt make sense to me when creating a post.
So, do I fill in english or do I leave it as undetermined/Select Language?
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Agreed, that warning message is confusing. Also I don't understand why we should have to select a language at all, since if I'm posting in an English community it should be implied that my post is in English.
I think that that warning was only supposed to show up in the profile settings
That's what I think too. The widget probably got reused, and then later they added that warning but it ended up showing in both places.
I think you're supposed to choose the languages your used in the post.
I'd like to know too. And also if it's important we set it, is there a way to make it default to English?
Maybe during signup it should nudge users to set their language preferences.
It might be an instance-dependent or user-setting-dependent thing, but I've noticed that my responses default to English.
For the time being, I've set my language preferences to these languages:
If my hunch is correct, my instance will detect that I haven't selected a language for this reply and set it to English.
Edit: It didn't. 😅
Edit 2: I'm stupid. The OP is talking about post creation, and not reply creation. My bad.
I also noticed the comments here have no language assigned. I spent quite some time in comment sections where each comment was labelled 'English'. After a while I stopped carefully labelling mine as 'English' manually, and nothing changed. Seems to auto-label. So I was confused that here they don't.
I'll label mine manually just for the test.
I've been leaving it as undetermined due to the bizarre warning, but maybe I don't understand it right.
Oh shoot. I’m glad you posted this as I just made a post and completely misinterpreted the message - I selected “English.” Hopefully that won’t filter it from too many users!