English language translation for the website

[zeren]

Would be nice to add an official language translation to the site for English in addition to Dutch. Using Google Translator sometimes messes with buttons and display of things so it isnt always efficient, just the main buttons and UI of tweakers website being translated is helpful, maybe even offer it as the community to fill in and offer translation to different languages?

[RobIII]

Not speaking for Tweakers but on a personal note: I don't think there's a real usecase here. Tweakers is a dutch site, always has been, (probably) always will be. We have a negligible amount of non-dutch speakers as far as I'm aware (depends on your definition of negligible ofcourse) and making the entire site multi language (and, if you're going there, you're gonna want to make it entirely locale aware including datetime conventions, number notations etc.) is a huge undertaking. I am not familiar with the codebase but I'm quite sure large parts (if not all) of it are not built with this in mind. And after all this huge undertaking has been conquered you're left with a site with an English UI and all the content still being dutch... that's no pretty sight either, is it?

[Raven]

If we're purely talking about the navigation-aspect of Tweakers.net, this might be a good idea. There are plenty of foreigners (students for example) in this country who could use Tweakers as a source to search for Dutch related tech stuff, topics about (problems with) Dutch telecom providers for example.

As for the actual content, maybe someone can create a CSS-snippet that can translate the posts or create a link that automatically copies the post to Google Translate?

[zeren]

I don't mind using third-party extensions to translate the content of posts/things as those are usually static and just text/images.

My ideas was mainly on the navigation aspect of Tweakers.net only as @Raven mentioned, since using Google Translate on Chrome (tho not everyone uses Chrome these days, Firefox does not offer that) breaks some button functionalities on the site from my experience.