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▲ sajithdilshan an hour ago

What would have been nice is that depending on the visitors IP address’s region, showing a localised message instead of fixed number of languages

▲Cidan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think the whole point is for it to be a static site that is easily distributed with little-to-no overhead, as it probably receives a non-trivial amount of traffic.

▲zahrevsky an hour ago | parent [-]

Yep, that's exactly their reasoning:

> As it tends to be heavily trafficked, the overall bandwidth is a key consideration

▲Waterluvian an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This feels like a “falsehood developers think about localization.”

It’s always funny when I get French YouTube ads. As if YouTube is desperately trying to offload the adbuys anywhere they can by pretending that Canada must mean French.

▲int0x29 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just check the Accept-Language header

▲erhuve an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I believe it's just using the official languages of the UN

▲sajithdilshan an hour ago | parent [-]

Interesting, didn’t know that. Also I would have expected German and Hindi to be official UN languages given the number of native speakers in the world

▲gunalx 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

Guess most of German speaking and Hindi speaking also know English.