I’m afraid its not just you. While Discourse is better than most forums in that regard, transparent translations are still just a dream.
Unfortunately, no translation of thread title, see Translation of thread title - but do go on the links mentioned there and add your like for support of that feature, so maybe Discourse will add it someday.
I’m afraid the best you could do is either:
- clicking on posts one by one and translating each one (disadvantage is additional waste of your time, as not only extra clicks, but also you’d have to read at least the start of article instead of just its title)
- muting categories that are likely to have vast majority posts in non-english (e.g. Deutschland, Nederland, Polska…) (with disadvantage that you’ll miss occasional English post, but even more, that you’ll miss all the interesting discussion which are happening in language that happens NOT to be English)
- using some external translator website, like you would for any other site that doesn’t have translation (disadvantage: popular ones are evil, and you’ll still have to cycle through languages)
- give up on “View latest topics”, follow weeklyOSM instead and hope interesting topics will be mentioned there, so you can then jump in those that interest you too. (this is what I do most of the time, although I do sometimes ending up doing the first bullet point)
- use “Unread” instead of “View latest topics”, and add watching/tracking in your preferences (see e.g. Mute Communities subcategories by default? - #2 by nukeador)
- or you can learn several other popular additional languages, and the problem goes away (disadvantage: might take some time; but it might end up being useful even outside of OSM
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