I am getting kinda sick of constantly not being able to post comments on seemingly random posts due to this error.

The instance is English, the post title is English, and my comment is in English. I have even logged into my instance website to change the language settings to have both “Undetermined” and “English” selected, and that still doesn’t work. Not all posts have this problem, and not even posts in just one community or instance. Seems like the error is completely random.

I have to imagine this is an error specific to Connect for Lemmy, since I don’t get the same error if I comment from my web browser. It seems to come from Connect for Lemmy not having an option to set the comment language when posting? Can that be corrected please?

  • twistedtxb@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m pretty sure this is a instance -level issue

    Have you checked your settings when logged in on the web interface? Be sure to select “undefined” as well as “English” (and others that might interest you)

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yes, I have, I said so in the post body above.

      I tried to comment on a post through the Connect app- get the language not allowed error. Commenting through web browser lets me set the language when posting- set to English- comment gets posted.

      It is 100% a problem with the application not having a dropdown when posting to select language. In all honesty, the language should be detected automatically, users should not be required to set and guess the language needed to comment. But thats a Lemmy issue, not a Connect one. For now, at least including the language setting for comments would suffice.

      • twistedtxb@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Sorry my bad, I should have read your entire post.

        What I would suggest though is to log in on the web interface and select every language (including “undertermined”), if you haven’t tried already. I’m pretty sure that’s what I did.

        Be sure to log out / in in Connect afterwards