How to make ~80% population of the World happy with 2 simple features and 1 line of code?

in steem •  8 years ago  (edited)

I can speak English, but according to this wikipedia article, I am in the minority:

I believe, that this community is about helping and efectivnes, so we should help people from foreigner countries speak in the most effective way... encouraging them in the same time, to be part of this mostly English speaking community of Steem.

There are a lot of articles wrote in different than English languages already here, but so far newcomers have to struggle to find out folks from their own country.

I believe that by adding 2 simple features, we can solves a lot of problems and at the same time will clean your list of post from stories which use a lot of letters like this: ąłóę, Стим, ράφ.

Feature 1:

We should take a list of Internet top-level domains, and use those domains/suffixes (.de, .pl, .cn, es) as steemit.com subdomains/prefixes:

  • de.steemit.com
  • pl.steemit.com
  • cn.steemit.com
  • es.steemit.com

Estimated development effort: probably something near $0 (this should be a matter of DNS configuration)

Feature 2

Whenever you use address http://xyz.steemit.com/, subdomain should be added to all tags as prefix, if they were not used in the first place:

#xyz-cars #xyz-steemit #xyz-tesla

in JavaScript (ES6), that would be 1 line of code:

tags = tags.map(tag => tag.indexOf(domain + '-') == 0 ? tag : domain + '-' + tag);

Translations are not needed right now

You might think, that I will also mention about translations, but in my opinion, interface of Steemit.com is so simple and intuitive, that people can wait for this a little bit longer. But it would be shame to wait for language-tags when they can be implement so easily...

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From #Portugal with Love!

Freaking genius on the loose here @ steemit! Nice idea though!

Can we get a whale to upvote this please.

Holy sh**

if you just use https://steemit.com/trending/spanish there you have spanish content and there is no need to create subdomains for languages, just using hashtags are enough... maybe

Ok so this proposal has earned the awesomesauce award for the day!

if this will be implemented thanks to this post, I will order a t-shirt with that pony! :)

I think thats a great idea! We do have people all over the world. For those of you who speak #spanish i made two posts to check out:

https://steemit.com/spanish/@sgnsteems/de-donde-eres-y-donde-vives

https://steemit.com/spanish/@sgnsteems/steeming-en-espanol

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Great idea @noisy

Its a super cool idea voted up for awesome!

Default language setting in one's profile and alert before posting if a different than default language is detected upon posting so the poster can select the correct language category.

nice post..

Short said - good said !
Pluśniem bo uśniem !

Great idea... :) I hope to see this implemented!

I agree, content should be separated in order for people to better access their own language.

the good thing about it, is that people will always know, that posting in English will be more useful for community, so at the end, then it will be extremely easy to find best post in specific language and translate it to English.

I guess, there will be new era for translators in the upcoming years. But only few upcoming... because later with such huge database of great translations, machine learning algorithms will finally figure out how to translate most of the stuff correctly :)

And then 80% of the world will have 100x times more information in their languge - this will give huge boost to whole World!

I put together a site with the bset steemit services, if you like it upvote my post
https://steemit.com/steemit/@admiral/steemit-information-www-beststeemitsites-com-list-of-best-steemit-services

thanks

Awesome, quick hack to make steemit more accessible to non English speakers.