Better way to handle translations

[nandolawson]

Describe the Feature

To be honest, it's difficult to get an overview of the translations, especially if you want to check how complete they are. A service like Crowdin could solve this and motivate more people to contribute to the translation.

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[surfdude29]

You can usually check how complete each localisation is by looking at the linter output for a PR. For instance, here click on Check & compile i18n and you'll see a table like this which lists the total number of strings and the number of missing ones for each locale:

However, GitHub actions are temporarily disabled at the moment due to a potential security vulnerability.

On moving to a platform like Crowdin, this has been suggested quite a few times (I gave a rather long explanation here if you're interested).

However, @/pfrazee said more recently that he's going to try to get Crowdin set up, so hopefully we translators won't have to wait too much longer 🤞😅

[surfdude29]

Also, I forgot to mention @monty241's kind offer to use Localazy: #6244 (comment)

[monty241]

@surfdude29 No problem, best is to include the desired language in the access request when asking to join https://localazy.com/p/bsky so I can make sure to load any possibly existing translations. Downloading is really easy once completed:

• 1: Open "Tools" and then "File Management"
• 2: Choose download button.
• 3: Uncheck all available languages.
• 4: Choose target language.
• 5: Choose "Export & Download"
• 6: Rename to messages.po and put in the right folder.

There is also a free SQL-driver for Localazy (I work there; we needed it for our own purposes so we made a free one available), see some queries at https://forums.invantive.com/tag/localazy.

[Lucasofchirstms]

Yea

[surfdude29]

Great news! Bluesky is now using Crowdin! Please see #7685 for all the details.