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This will be a place for site proposals and discussion before implementation on the site.
Every proposal will also be mirrored into a pinned post on the hexbear community.

Any other ideas for helping to integrate the two spaces are welcome to be commented here or messaged to me directly.

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I DID THE UPDATE to the applications.

They're LIVE LIVE LIVE

you can view them when you go to make a new account

please don't use this as an opportunity to make new accounts.

or do, whatevs.

but ANSWER THE DAMN PROMPS OR I'LL DENY YOUR FUNNY COOL USERNAMES

edit: I'll leave this up for the rest of the day to let everyone know its done. I'll probably leave this unlocked so if anyone else wants to drop by and improve a translation or add a new one they can pop by and drop it in instead of making a whole new post or DMing me. not that's gonna stop anyone from doing exactly that lmao either one's fine.

old message

Hi folks, its me. hog-post

I'm stealing the top of the website for a few days because a thought occurred to me a while back that goes along the lines of "damn, we really haven't updated the application for a hot minute haven't we?" also "damn we're getting quite a few international folks in but they might not know what the lingo and abbreviations in the application really mean"

which leads me to this post: shocked-dino

A general poll on what languages hexbear users know... (read: I'm too lazy to figure out how to do an actual poll thingy so I'll just tally up everyones comments. Also don't be a smartass and say "English lol" angery )

And, arguably more exciting, a general request to our multilingual users to help translate the application into their language in order to help other possible new folks to know what we're all about. (Also a general discussion on whether or not this is a good idea. I got a thumbs up from the others in the cabal of evil admins but I'm playing fast and loose with this because I had just drank a bunch of coffee when I wrote this up and I was vibrating like a hairless chihuahua walking through a park in fall. silly-liberator )

To remind people what the application looks like, it's the following three sentences.

How did you find out about Hexbear, and why do you want to join?

Why did you choose your username?

What are your views on Gender and Sexual Minorities [GSM] / LGBTQ rights, racial justice, animal liberation, and similar movements?

So to summarize, Im bored, im curious what languages everyone speaks, and I'm looking for volunteers to translate the application into their native tongue so future applicants can have an easier time understanding what the site's about. The translated versions will be contained in spoilers so as to ensure the whole application page doesn't look densely bloated like me after eating oatmeal kiryu-dame-da-ne

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https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/bf320052-d366-4395-bcfd-39541cca4956.png fubuki stonk

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/8cb6a46f-2d01-4f15-ac6b-c8597dc01738.png just as planned

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[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My take on portuguese It sounds a little robotic right now and there are a few minor mistakes. I'm also trying to make everything not too literal and to change out terms for their equivalent.

PortuguêsComo você descobriu Hexbear, e por que quer fazer parte da comunidade?

Por que escolheu este nome de usuário?

Qual é sua visão sobre minorias sexuais e de gênero / direitos LGBTQIA+, igualdade racial, liberação animal e movimentos similares?

[–] Emanuel@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hmm sorry, I reread the first version and I can definitely see that I was just off of work and had my language wired to formal. This is better.

Though I'm tempted to argue that some changes look somewhat superficial and due to some regionalisms. For instance, I phrased the second question as: "Por que você escolheu este nome de usuário?", while you omitted the pronoun "você". Where I'm from, specifically, it's very common to make the subject explicit, instead of in ellipsis.

I say this because, from my point of view, your version sounds a bit, uh, alien. I say this not as criticism, but to state that your comment brought to my attention that: 1- I speak very formally sometimes lol; 2- Portuguese, as many languages, has a lot of regional variation to how it is written and spoken. This means that you probably speak and write a different regional version of Portuguese compared to mine. For instance, some other speaker might entirely omit the "você" and speak with "tu" ("Como tu descobristes Hexbear, e por que queres fazer parte da comunidade?"). Which means I don't know which variation of the language to use and could use an opinion :) (not implying that this is my decision to make, just that I want an opinion of a fellow lusófon@)

[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Uh, yeah. I also didn't put too much thought into it. For questions, when it's repetitive, to me it makes sense to just ellipsis some things, so it's shorter, but that's more of a choice than correct. I see you did two different translations, I only chose the ones that were closer to natural for me and changed some minor things. I'm also autistic, so I might be sounding weird because I'm weird.

About regionalisms, I don't really know what to do, but anything is probably fine, as long as it's understandable. I don't think any will make it difficult to understand.

[–] Emanuel@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

No, I think it sounds fine. I'd just add back the "você" to the second question and say it sounds right to me, though now I feel maybe some other regional versions might be more inclusive. I'm not going to do that work though lol

Also, weird is cool, so keep being cool