The machine translation feature integrated into Discourse (the little globe that appears next to the thumbs up button when you’re looking at a foreign language post) works surprisingly well.
If you read some of the recent Korean posts, some of them actually make the point that having separate subforums per language is problematic because it excludes speakers of other languages, and the fact that the general forums are predominantly English speaking means that whatever is discussed there is just accepted as the global consensus without input from people who don’t speak English well enough to feel comfortable posting there.
(At least that’s the point I think they’re making, based on machine translation of the posts, haha)
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a discussion about hiking trails where each of us feels free to post in whatever language they want, and still we all understand each other?
This would work even better if thread titles were auto-translated and if we had multilingual tags or multilingual community names.