We’ve been investigating some recurring issues with the user experience on the instance, and have traced it back to the way Lemmy handles language settings.
Here’s the TL;DR on how to ensure you see all of the content on this instance:
In your user settings, make sure “Language” is set to both “English” and “Undetermined”.
On desktop, you can use CTRL+click to select both options.
This will allow you to see content for which the author has not set a language, and content which has been set to “English”.
Thanks for the PSA! I’d seen the warning that not including “Undetermined” could prevent you from seeing content, but I didn’t realize you could multi-select!
The documentation on language settings is pretty unclear, and the UI is rather unintuitive, so we wanted to get the word out.
Thanks !
Yeah this is a pretty stupid part of the UI, and after following the directions I already see more posts, like this one.
great tip! it should hold us over until we get our universal translators!
Mine defaulted to both, but I have a very new account.
Thanks, selecting English, undetermined and german made it so I can actually see the posts from the German groups
Thank you for enabling all languages. Finally I can see posts in other languages.
You’re welcome - it wasn’t initially clear to us that it would affect our local users’ experience on other instances.
