The Ukrainian counteroffensive is going slow, but success is still possible
  • tal@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I think that the “uk” tag on this thread means that it is marked as Ukranian-language, but it should probably be marked as English-language, as the article is in English.

    It looks like it’s possible to edit a submitted link and update the language subsequent to submitting it, OP (the more->edit dropdown menu).

    • Ulara@sopuli.xyzOPУкраїнська
      0·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know what this tag means and how it came to be. I have not found a way to edit it.

      • tal@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        So, on my screen, it reads:

        How the Ukraine Counteroffensive Can Still Succeed uk (time.com)

        The “uk” there is what I mean.

        Maybe the right term isn’t “tag”. There’s a separate field for “tags”, separate from the language.

        I think – I tried editing one of my old thread submissions, using the desktop web UI – that if you click on “more” and then “edit”, you get a page where you can edit the thread. At the very bottom of that page, there is a menu with the language of the post. It’s right beneath two checkboxes for “18+/NSFW” and “OC” and to the left of “Edit link”. There is an entry in that menu in Ukranian (“українська”) for Ukranian-language, which I assume is what is presently-chosen for this post.

        I don’t know if it’s a big deal right now, because I don’t know if language filtering presently works on kbin/lemmy or on clients, but if it doesn’t now, I would bet that sooner or later, it will be filtered, and so people might block stuff in languages that they can’t read. One of the first things I ran into was a ton of German-language posts, for example, and I remember people talking about filtering them out.

        • Ulara@sopuli.xyzOPУкраїнська
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thank you, that’s interesting. Anyway, I have posted this with an app, using an account on another instance. So I have not found a way to edit this attribute. I will experiment with other options to find out how this works. Well, it can be a kind of fun - to be officially recognised as a proud Ukrainian 🇺🇦

          • tal@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Anyway, I have posted this with an app, using an account on another instance.

            Ah, okay, gotcha. Yeah, early days for the Threadiverse, I guess, features still getting work.