<story><title>Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative</title><url>https://codeberg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xeeeeeeeeeeenu</author><text>Their half-translated UI (my browser is set to polish) is extremely off-putting.&lt;p&gt;So many people seem to think that providing low quality translations is improving accessibility. It isn&amp;#x27;t. It&amp;#x27;s doing the opposite, pure english websites provide &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; better UX to international users.&lt;p&gt;BTW, Microsoft with their automatically translated MSDN docs is by far the worst offender in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marten-de-vries</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s the case because you speak English. Think about the last time you had to navigate a website in a language you didn&amp;#x27;t speak (in my case e.g. Chinese or Russian). I remember being very happy with a few (incomplete) clues in English about were to look and what to expect.&lt;p&gt;By all means, advocate for making it easy to change the language back to the original. But this stance &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; decrease accessibility.</text></comment>
<story><title>Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative</title><url>https://codeberg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xeeeeeeeeeeenu</author><text>Their half-translated UI (my browser is set to polish) is extremely off-putting.&lt;p&gt;So many people seem to think that providing low quality translations is improving accessibility. It isn&amp;#x27;t. It&amp;#x27;s doing the opposite, pure english websites provide &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; better UX to international users.&lt;p&gt;BTW, Microsoft with their automatically translated MSDN docs is by far the worst offender in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>I think it very much depends on the the country.&lt;p&gt;In Sweden, you can assume that pretty much everyone understands English, so if your website has an incomplete Swedish translation, might just be better to go with English one anyways.&lt;p&gt;But in Spain (outside the big cities), not that many people do understand English. In that case, it&amp;#x27;ll be better to serve a incomplete Spanish version instead of in English, as otherwise they&amp;#x27;ll be completely lost.&lt;p&gt;So as always, I&amp;#x27;d say it really depends, and it&amp;#x27;s hard to generalize over all &amp;quot;international users&amp;quot;.</text></comment>