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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by Pxtl on Thursday February 20, 2014 @08:16AM (#7270565)
That's surprising since Reddit at least translates their site into every language - how many times have you googled something and gotten back a reddit hit for an English language reddit page but with Portuguese UI? so reddit has done more than many to internationalize their site.

Probably a strip of language names along the top, taking you to language-filtered frpnt-pages would help. It would be ugly, but it's Reddit.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by laurentb on Thursday February 20, 2014 @09:11AM (#7270774)
to most french people, it's the actual content being in english that isn't helping...
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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by Pxtl on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:03AM (#7271038)
I know, I just mean offering a French-language Reddit UI is better than many other platforms.

That said, http://fr.reddit.com/ should be the top posts from the French-language subreddits, not just the main frontpage with a French UI.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by laurentb on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:32AM (#7271226)
I can only imagine the nightmare of manually selecting subreddits for each languages though!
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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by Pxtl on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:44AM (#7271317)
Subreddits have a "language" setting, although the data is probably dirty since the value is unused AFAIK - for all we know /r/pics is currently set on "Klingon". The Reddit admins would probably have to do some manual dirty-work, but iirc the "default subs/front page" reddit listing is somewhat manually curated anyways.
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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by laurentb on Thursday February 20, 2014 @02:14PM (#7272902)
either way, if you stick to the idea of an entirely french version, fr.reddit.com/r/football will lead you to the american football subreddit, but for a french guy they would expect soccer to be there...

It's still gread that they provided a multilingual UI, but as a whole, us companies could always use to understand the foreign market a little bit better than just providing a UI translation...

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