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'language_not_allowed' error when commenting (normalcity.life)
submitted 2 years ago by EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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I'm having this error most of the time I try to comment. It seems to be because I can't manually select the comment language like I can on the web UI.

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[–] CubitOom 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just fixed this myself. And it's not related to the interface language.

Seems like it depends on the instance/community you are trying to comment on as it's not an error everywhere. But you have to have only a language that the instance/community allows selected as a possible response language.

To do this, login to your instance on a web browser and go to your settings. Scroll down to "Languages" and choose just the one that the community/community you're trying to use allows.

So if you're reading this, you probably want to unselect all languages and only select English.

Ideally, we could pick the language for the comment in jerboa. Another nice to have feature for lemmy in general would be to have a priority rabked list of languages.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have both of these sets like this, and I'm still occasionally hitting snags on certain communities. Oddly enough, I still have to (occasionally) manually select the language to get my comments to go through on the desktop. It seems like something else is wrong even with these settings set like this.

[–] CubitOom 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also force closed my app after making these changes. Is that something you tried?

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hey, what do you know? It worked. Hopefully it sticks. Thank you!

[–] theory@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Same

[–] daBeans@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can fix it by switching your interface language in your account settings from Browser Default to English, or whatever language you most often type in.

Not the greatest solution if you're bilingual, though.

Edit: It seems like you can't access that setting from Jerboa, you have to edit that setting on the website.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I already have English checked off in my account settings. It still requires me to choose a language when I'm commenting.

[–] daBeans@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you mean you have English checked off in Languages? That's a different setting, you'll need to select a language under Interface Language.

Here's a picture of the Interface Language setting:

Now, if we were talking about the same thing, then yeah I'd have no clue what's going on.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That was ~~probably~~ totally it. I didn't notice that option until you sent the screenshot.

[–] daBeans@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Can't say I blame you lol. It's really not an obvious setting, glad to hear it solved your issue!

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