Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative

Re:Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative by marten-de-vries on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:41PM (#22798174)

That's the case because you speak English. Think about the last time you had to navigate a website in a language you didn't speak (in my case e.g. Chinese or Russian). I remember being very happy with a few (incomplete) clues in English about were to look and what to expect.

By all means, advocate for making it easy to change the language back to the original. But this stance will decrease accessibility.

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Re:Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative by skocznymroczny on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @03:10AM (#22800991)

In case of technical websites, you have to know English anyway, because even if there is a broken translation of the documentation, function names, enums and all the cool stuff remains in the original language anyway.

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Re:Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative by capableweb on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @04:47AM (#22811161)

> you have to know English anyway

You don't, plenty of developers are getting around having to know English as there are other resources for learning.

I think it's a dangerous assumption that everyone knows English. It's especially true in the Spanish-speaking world, where I know developers who can't have a conversation in English but are good enough to be employable.

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Re:Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative by nitroll on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @05:54PM (#22807889)

I would rather just use google translate to do it automatically on the entire page, and yes I do that quite regularly from German.

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