Is there something different about the way this community was set up? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by verdeviento@mander.xyz to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

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Houseplants is (I think) the only Mander community where I can't see posts on Jerboa (or rather can only see 4 posts) though web app works fine, showing pages of posts. Just curious as to why that might be, maybe language setup? Maybe just an idiosyncracy of Jerboa?

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[-] verdeviento@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Actually, yes, you have solved this, thank you! It was my language setting, and I had somehow selected everything EXCEPT English 😅. Houseplants must be mostly in English while the rest of Mander may be undetermined? Many thanks to you and @tauzero for looking into this :)

[-] Sal@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Great!

Yes, some users are more thorough when it comes to selecting the language. I think that the philosophy behind it is that if everyone were organized it would be easier to create a multi-language federated universe in which people can filter content such that they will only see the language that they actually want to interact with.

In practice, the overwhelming majority of current users speak English, most posts are in English, and most users don't explicitly select a language. So the practical effect that the language system has is that it creates some unexpected behavior and confusing situations. I've accidentally changed my language settings without noticing while changing other settings and doing so broke some communities, as you've noticed...

[-] verdeviento@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

So many ways to break things and so many thumbs to do it with ;)

[-] TauZero@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I think another problem is that the "dialog dropdown box with multiple selectable options" is a very rarely used feature on modern web. It is not obvious that multiple selections are possible (I have to ctrl-click them for example), and it is not clear which color is "selected" or "de-selected" (especially with multiple color themes available to us), leading to OP situation where everything BUT english got selected. It should be an unrolled list with individual "show/hide" ratio boxes, but that's a problem for lemmy web interface developers to solve.

[-] verdeviento@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you're right, this gave me problems on mobile web even when I finally knew what the problem was.

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