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Hey, thanks for your work, love .NET. I guess this is as good of a chance as I'm gonna get - the docs experience in non-anglosphere countries is dreadful, the

by j_4 5y ago

Hey, thanks for your work, love .NET. I guess this is as good of a chance as I'm gonna get - the docs experience in non-anglosphere countries is dreadful, the website keeps pushing a localized version with absolutely garbled machine translations which are never going to be even passable for technical documentation. It's just a completely miserable experience without the "FFS MSDN" browser extension.[1][2] At least that was the situation a year or so ago - all my computers are now 100% English locale so I have no quick way to check. Just let us use the website in English. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ffs-msdn-in-english/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ffs-msdn-in-e... [2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ffs-msdn-in-english/ddaknggefjjgpnlhiejepbiplceedmfl https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ffs-msdn-in-englis...

indigo945 5y ago
Hah, I hadn't realized there was a dedicated browser extension for this. I've been using the Redirect plugin for Firefox to regex-rewrite the URLs - because obviously, the machine translated documentation is useless at best (and harmful at worst). Indeed ridiculously annoying though. For some reason, Google also started to show the titles of English-language YouTube videos in machine translated German for me, usually completely garbling the meaning - and the video is in English anyway! It's not like I could watch it if I didn't already understand the original title! Who would have thought that managers in primarily monolingual cultures (i.e. the US) don't understand the actual needs of an international, polyglot audience? The techbro-ism behind these decisions is palatable. "That's a technological solution to what I, without actually asking any of the people affected, imagine to be a problem, so it must be good, right? I mean, it has ML?"
jongalloway2 5y ago
Thanks for letting me know, I'll check in with friends in docs and try to get this sorted out. Sorry for the frustration.

by j_4 5y ago

indigo945 5y ago

Hah, I hadn't realized there was a dedicated browser extension for this. I've been using the Redirect plugin for Firefox to regex-rewrite the URLs - because obviously, the machine translated documentation is useless at best (and harmful at worst). Indeed ridiculously annoying though. For some reason, Google also started to show the titles of English-language YouTube videos in machine translated German for me, usually completely garbling the meaning - and the video is in English anyway! It's not like I could watch it if I didn't already understand the original title! Who would have thought that managers in primarily monolingual cultures (i.e. the US) don't understand the actual needs of an international, polyglot audience? The techbro-ism behind these decisions is palatable. "That's a technological solution to what I, without actually asking any of the people affected, imagine to be a problem, so it must be good, right? I mean, it has ML?"

jongalloway2 5y ago

Thanks for letting me know, I'll check in with friends in docs and try to get this sorted out. Sorry for the frustration.