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It really isn’t. You presumably live in a country. That country has a flag. If you click that flag, there is a high chance you’ll get a language you understand
by bsza 2y ago
It really isn’t. You presumably live in a country. That country has a flag. If you click that flag, there is a high chance you’ll get a language you understand - and if you don’t, you probably already know the reason and how to fix it (diaspora, multi-lingual country etc.). A few easy-to-address edge cases are no basis to fuck up everyone else’s experience.
- andrewshadura 2y agoI speak Russian, I don't live in Russia. Never have, never was a citizen of. Why the hell do I have to select the flag of Russia if I want to use something in Russian?
- bsza 2y agoSee? You’ve already managed to figure out which flag to click despite your VERY exceptional situation. This is great UI design.
- andrewshadura 2y agoIt’s not an exceptional situation. This is quite commonplace, even in the English-speaking world.
- bsza 2y agoThe largest diaspora in the world (India’s) has 30 million people, and most of them (18M) are immigrants. I have trouble believing more than 1% of people worldwide would prefer something other than one of the national languages of the country in which they were raised. But my point is more like, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Your frustration with the Russian flag is justified, but so is the frustration of everyone else having to read through dozens of entries, possibly in a foreign language.
- LudwigNagasena 2y agoBecause it is a convenient universally understood symbol. Why does the letter W have the shape it has? I don’t care, but I know what it stands for as do all other people who speak English.
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