John~🐺Apr 7, 2017

RE: translation feature requests: this is probably not going to happen - if it does, not for a long time. The financial risk is too high.

My response to this is also that while right now it may feel like a Tower of Babel, the nature of mastodon instances would suggest that communities will settle over time and this problem will alleviate itself. The most I can offer immediately is the ability to copy toot text so you may paste in a translator of your choosing

Show threadandrewApr 7, 2017

@eurasierboy Yeah, I feel like even if translation services were affordable, it would still be slow? Like, you request and get a set of statuses and then request a translation on those statuses and THEN show it.

You could pipeline it by overlapping the next fetch with the current translation, but then you have to do pipeline stall handling. It'd be intense.

Show threadJohn~🐺
@Vavassor if I were to do it I would have to make it an opted action where a user would select to translate, in a pitiful attempt to keep its usage as minimal as possible. But yeah - even in optimal situations I don't see how it'd not be cumbersome at best, horrifyingly expensive and slow at worst
Apr 7, 2017 at 3:22amAmaroq