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Re:Internationalizing 99designs by behrendtio on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @02:39AM (#5904036)
How can a website nowadays need 9 months to add a new language? I mean good article, but seriously. If you have to refactor your whole codebase to add i18n, you did it very wrong in the first place.
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Re:Internationalizing 99designs by lars512 on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @05:47AM (#5904629)
A small product built in one of today's modern frameworks? Sure, that'll be much faster. 5+ years ago when 99designs was kicked off, the landscape looked much different.

Importantly, the founders choices allowed them to iterate quickly and essentially capture global Anglophone market for our product. If that made i18n a little harder, it was no doubt still a good trade-off to make.

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Re:Internationalizing 99designs by lox on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @06:42PM (#5908917)
What would doing it right be? Interested what techniques you'd suggest for keeping new PHP/Ruby projects i18n-friendly.
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