Comments not being translated

[Fizzie41]

An issue that I have just found with regard to non-English comments on posts.

Reading this post: Help: Advice against upload - #4 by whb, which has the normal translation button, which gives

but the commented reply hasn’t been translated, nor is there a button to translate that comment?

[whb]

@Fizzie41

but the commented reply hasn’t been translated, nor is there a button to translate that comment?

Yes, comments cannot be translated:

Comments cannot be flagged or translated

The comments cannot be flagged and they cannot be translated with the translate-button. I therefore suggest deactivating this plugin again until such problems are solved.

Also, topics with new comments are not marked as unread and therefore have no effect on this list (among other things):
https://community.openstreetmap.org/latest

[SekeRob]

My observation is if the first sentence is in the language you want to translate to and the rest or quoted text is another language, then the rest wont get translated.

[Map_HeRo (Mikke)]

Hi @Fizzie41, I have shifted your topic “This site feedback” as the issue is not OSM but the forum software. Hope this is ok with you.

[nukeador (Rubén Martín)]

Thanks for reporting, let’s centralize the conversation on the existing topic

Comments cannot be flagged or translated

What and who is affected by this issue/request? All users that may use the flag option (available for posts) can not use a flag option for comments to posts as this is not available at the moment. Where on the platform does it happen? E.g. in the help and support forum, where comments can be added to posts. How do we replicate the issue? See e.g. this thread: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/topic/102755 where a comment can not be flagged. While posts to have a menu bar with e.g. the flag…

Cheers.