Sorry, I hope this is the right place to ask, and I’m probably just being silly and missing something obvious. But is it possible to set the default language for my own posts?

The reason I’m asking is, the language list is fairly long when I write a new comment or post. Scrolling to “English” is cumbersome, and by default the language’s unset for my own posts. I don’t want to filter the posts I’m seeing, just mark mine since I imagine it’s helpful for others.

  • chrisbit@leminal.spaceMEnglish
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    13 days ago

    You may be out of luck in that case. 😑

    There’s a longstanding issue open about this for the default web UI, and I also couldn’t find this setting in either the Tesseract or Photon front-ends. (It seems there’s little motivation to add the setting to the backend API either).

    If it’s causing too much friction, you could consider ignoring the language selection and let it default to ‘undefined’. Probably 99% of people will still see your posts.

    Consider also adding your voice to the UI issue above so the devs may be more likely to prioritise it.

    • ell1e@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Thanks! Seems like it might be a good idea to poke the web UI makers about it, I’ll do so.