I have started to get the hang of automatic translation using Google Translate for this forum.
If you select “options”, and tick “always translate”, then select the languages to translate from/to, from then on Google Translate will automatically translate pages in that language.
Sometimes you may have to copy text and go to the google translate page to find out the language.
With further testing, it only remembers the last language selected 
yes, I happen to do it, only if you do it the links are dead, you have to reload the original page.
while the old system is very practical, flexible to use. Too bad that for an evolution, we go through a regression.
Is it possible to integrate an automatic translator as it was in the old forum?
Or did I just not find it?
It was very practical.
Ray
As yusufcican indicates [quote=“yusufcihan, post:5, topic:1542, full:true”]
Discourse (community software) doesn’t support Translations as default. However App Inventor team can install a translator plugin to this forum. It will display a globe icon next to the post when installed.
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a language translator is possible. MIT has not yet decided whether they want to pay to automatically use GoogleTranslate services.
Yes a translator plug in for the Forum is possible; MIT has not implemented it. Funding for providing that ability is probably an issue since translation is possible using other methods. Some users recommend using the translate facility in Chrome; others to copy and paste text using GoogleTranslate. Both options awkward but usable. When large users use GoogeTranslate (instead of individuals), Google expects to be paid.
Hello, I am delighted with your request, I made the same request,
where did the translation go?,
because juggling between pages is cumbersome, moreover I cannot translate the whole page, the google translator blocks, while on other forums it does very well. did you say evolution?
to answer a: SteveJG yes but before the forum did it (see above)?
wait wait wait …
FYI, I’ve modified the Discourse Translator plugin, so that it supports Yandex Translator, which is free.
The PR is under review yet, as I’ve submitted it right now. If don’t like to wait, just clone my fork.
Maybe it could be installed here to provide translations?
PS: Don’t learn Ruby; it’s weird, ugly and cannot be understood. I went mad working with it. 
thank you for your proposal, I went through the github and the post a bit, I didn’t quite understand the installation. can you be more specific, thanks again for your help 
This has to be installed by MIT, then you can use it
ok, will it be installed?
There is another option. This forum has its own application. An icon appeared at the top to install the “Mit App Inventor Community” application. I have installed and have a browser-independent forum and google translation. Links work.
I’m on win, not on an application?
or I didn’t understand everything (excuse me, google translates)
can you show me how you did it?
thank you for reading.
Discourse team approved and merged the PR, so you can use Yandex now for free as community translator:
Thanks @Diego. We decided we would wait until this was merged and now it looks like we can move forward.
hello, excellent news for the start of 2020
I was not comfortable with the github
can you describe how it is installed
thank you for your work.
I am going to look into installing the translation plugin with Diego’s changes tomorrow (was going to do it today, but got distracted).
Update on Updating Discourse. The ability to install and update Discourse is currently broken. Maxmind GeoIP is required for the build process and Maxmind has blocked anonymous access. This in turn causes the Discourse build to fail (and you have to do a build to install a plugin). The Discourse folks have a fix, but they have not released it yet.
I am looking into deploying a patched version of Discourse to get around the problem, but this is non-trivial. I’m going to wait a few days and see if the official fix gets released. I would rather stay in line with the official releases then start hacking around.
Btw. The discourse build process is horrible. Although easy on the surface, it suffers from third party dependencies that can break the build (like we have now). The build process also downloads code without specifying a particular version from the Internet during the build. This means that I can do a build on my test server, verify that all is well and a day later do a build on the production system and get different code that may not work as it did during testing. This means that I have to do testing reasonably close in time to when I am going to deploy code in production. Non ideal.
At long last I was able to upgrade discourse and install the translations plugin (thanks @Diego). It is enabled and configured for Yandex.
Thank you !!!
just select the globe and the page translates.
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