It's getting really frustrating, almost every post has missing comments. What causes this?
EDIT: I needed to select both "English" and "Undetermined" in my language settings
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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Most common cause is people changing their language settings in their profile. It's a daily occurrence. The app really needs to tell people "25 messages not displayed because you are only viewing in Spanish".
I have it set to undetermined
It allows selecting multiple languages, but it's not clear and setting multiple is fiddly - most sites use multiple checkboxes instead for this reason. Anyway, if you select Undetermined, English and whatever else you're happy to see, you'll see a lot more comments (and posts, probably).
Edit: to select multiple, hold control while clicking/spacebarring to add another.
It should have two language settings - those you might post in (for the dropdown on making a comment/post) and for those you're happy to read (I'd just set it to all, since I can always translate anything that looks interesting).
Yeah this worked, thank you