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1lorax
Dec 5, 2014, 2:43 pm

As of about five minutes ago, the English site is displaying things (chocolate bar, side navigation, buttons, etc.) in French.

2melawen
Dec 5, 2014, 2:46 pm

I thought it was just me!!!!

3elenchus
Dec 5, 2014, 2:48 pm

Using the link at top right to change to English, or back to French, has no effect except perhaps one page, then it reverts to French.

Selecting German took me to the log-in page for the .de site, but the language was also in French.

4lorax
Dec 5, 2014, 3:04 pm

I'd love to know what happened....

5timspalding
Dec 5, 2014, 3:11 pm

Fixed.

6timspalding
Dec 5, 2014, 3:12 pm

>4 lorax:

I was working on translation bugs. To make translation work on our development server, which doesn't have the various foreign-langauge domains, I need to set a global variable. Usually it's just set for ME. But I had to work on some text that is available if you're signed out, so I needed a global that's true for everyone. Then I by mistake pushed that to production, when another function needed updating.

Yeah. Idiot.

But, hey, now you know LibraryThing's available in French!

7elenchus
Dec 5, 2014, 3:58 pm

And we also know that mistakes make good stories. Thanks!

8lorax
Dec 5, 2014, 4:06 pm

And we also know what Tim's preferred second language is!

9timspalding
Dec 5, 2014, 9:14 pm

>8 lorax:

Yeah. It should be Latin, but it ain't. Turkish is just too hard. And my German is long gone.

10MarthaJeanne
Dec 6, 2014, 2:47 am

Not Greek?

11timspalding
Dec 6, 2014, 9:59 am

Well, we don't have an Ancient Greek site.... But on balance although I love Greek more, I find Latin easier to read now. It fades slower.