Lately when trying to comment I’m getting the message Language_not_allowed even if I type something like ‘test’. Any idea what’s happening here?

  • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
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    711 months ago

    Yes some subs require a language set afaik, so posting without changing the language thing next to post and preview from undetermined to a language will result in this error. It basically says, this language is not allowed, which means that maybe this sub for example allows English only.

    I think.

    I was very confused about this a month ago :D I don’t think this was a great addition to Lemmy.

  • Peter1986C
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    611 months ago

    I have had that issue as well, from time to time. So far it seems to help if you allow all languages in your profile settings.

  • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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    411 months ago

    This happens if a community specifies a set of allowed languages, and you are trying to post in a different one. It sounds like the UX and error messages should definitely be improved though. To reproduce this issue, can you say which community you tried to post in and what languages you had enabled at the time?

      • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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        411 months ago

        That community only allows posting in English, and you probably tried to comment with the default language which is “undetermined”. In this case it should really be able to select English as default language, as its the only option.