Content is hidden due to not choosing the languages in the settings.
Making the language settings opted in by default should solve this initial struggle, opting out should be done manually. Putting check boxes next to the languages on there for selection should make things easier too.
This has been an issue long before the guy in the linked post reported it. ~~I've had to face this same issue on other instances as well so it's obviously a Lemmy issue and not instance specific.~~
Please understand that these sorts of small but very visible troubles are what keep people away from this platform. You sign up and go to any community only to see no posts or only those not tagged with a language (You could even miss those if you don't choose "Undetermined"). Any new user would be confused "Are there no user at all?" "Is this community banned?" "Is this instance defederated?" Each of these doubts would just push any new users out.
Edit: This PSA was over 9 months ago now.
Edit 2: It seems to be instance specific, lemmy.world and lemm.ee both have this issue as far as I've seen.
Edit 3: Thank you everyone for your help.
I confirmed this just now, when registering a new account all discussion languages are enabled. However this isnt properly indicated in the lemmy-ui user settings.
Should I this move this thread to support? I thought since lemmy.world and lemm.ee both have this issue it would be better to post it on the lemmy development community.
I cant really how such a problem could happen and only affect those specific instances. Can you check through the api which languages are enabled on a new account? The info is under
/api/v3/sitein the fielddiscussion_languages, it should contain numbers from 0-183 which are all the language ids.I'll chime in here - I don't know if this is OP's issue, but I have experienced issues in the past with being able to clearly tell which languages in the list are selected, and/or the selected language settings saving properly.
I haven't played around with it in months, but at the time I thought maybe it was just my browser theme/system colour settings that were making it hard to tell exactly what was selected.
I agree with those who are saying that a list of possible languages with accompanying check boxes would be more intuitive than the current implementation.
Yes contributions to improve this interface would definitely be welcome.