As a user it’s annoying because I have to hunt down the language/region settings. And as a developer it would cost me a lot more to hunt down those values based on the client IP address.
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Don’t you mean 34 times convicted felon?
Surprise! The orange cunt is back at it! 🥴
Sure, but that could be decoupled from language/regional preferences.
When I travel to another country my smartphone doesn’t change its language to match that of the host country, so why don’t websites respect the user-defined preference defined in the header?
Excellent point on the local cache explanation! I hadn’t thought of that.
As a web developer myself I’m into detecting it automatically then redirecting to a URL that includes it (like /en/products). Then of course users can manually change it by signing in and/or using cookies.
Cambria, CA because I live in Los Angeles and our nature spots are overrun with Instagram squirrel brain types.
Technology is like, the most discussed topic in the entire Lemmy network and there are countless instances with communities revolving around it.
Lemmy isn’t just one entity providing a server. Why not move onto another server (instance)? Better yet roll your own and play by your own rules.
Clothing with brand names all over the place
I absolutely love my Audi but I can’t argue that it isn’t a pile of shit.
Yeah I know. I’m just pretty burned out lately.
This entire post + thread is cursed