Idea

Since No Chat Reports is getting a lot of strings and a lot of translators, it would be wise to migrate to a translation platform to make the process easier for everyone.

Some platforms:

• Crowdin - free limited plan/free unlimited FOSS plan
• Transifex - free FOSS plan
• Weblate - free FOSS plan/free if self-hosted

I prefer Crowdin as it has the best UI of the three and it is used by, among others, Mojang itself. At the same time, I understand that Mojang using it may be a drawback, so other options are fine too.

Reasoning

• Easier collaboration on translation strings
• Strings can be commented
• Users get locale update notifications
• All strings don't have to be translated on one go
• String updates create an automatic pull request
• etc.

Other Information

No response

They all suck. Someone votes "good enough" strings and forgets, then you have no chance to make a better one. That's why I use a custom resource pack to translate Minecraft to Romanian.

They all suck. Someone votes "good enough" strings and forgets, then you have no chance to make a better one. That's why I use a custom resource pack to translate Minecraft to Romanian.

I'm sorry you've had that experience, and in an older version of Minecraft, I can relate as well.

There are ways to solve it, though:

• vote for the translations
• discuss with the original commenter
• discuss with the language proofreader
• discuss with a global proofreader/project owner

So as long as we'd make the existing language contributors proofreaders, they'd get to choose which new strings get approved.

Will be happy to assist with the Crowdin integration 🙂

So as long as we'd make the existing language contributors proofreaders, they'd get to choose which new strings get approved.

Well yeah, here's the issue - too many people just drop in the translation once and then disappear. Overall I do not think translation platform is something we absolutely need at this point, not until we have more recurrent localizators.