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Discussion on: Forem features for non-tech audience?

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Michael Kohl • Edited

Ahoj!

2) Tags supporting national symbols and spaces

Work on this is in progress, see github.com/forem/forem/issues/14745

3) i18n support

A PR laying the groundwork will be merged after Codeland (the conference we're running on Thursday and Friday) is over. Stay tuned for any follow-up announcements.

github.com/forem/forem/pull/14620

4) WYSWYG support

This is a frequent request, we're currently internally researching options.

5) Customize forem on my own VS central changes?

If you think your ideas/customizations would make sense for a wider audience, please post a feature request here. As you said, maintaining a divergent fork is a lot of work and you may not be able to painlessly update your selfhosted Forem instance if it diverges too much from our one.

Did that help? 🙂

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secretpray • Edited

4) WYSWYG support
This is a frequent request, we're currently internally researching options.

There was a promise to do something about the editor in the around Q3 2021 (forem.dev/lisasy/comment/1kl). Any news on this issue?

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Christina Gorton

github.com/forem/forem/issues/14794

This is the newest issue and discussion around WYSWYG support.

We had a big change in our Product team recently and they are getting up to speed with all the requests from the community but have prioritized this one.

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yheuhtozr

@citizen428 Re github.com/forem/forem/pull/14620, if this means the dev team is ready to accept actual i18n of the code base strings, and unless you already have extracted them, I'm willing to PR the whole bunch of locale files and i18n-converted code (covers almost all of views) we have so far. What would you say?

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Michael Kohl • Edited

That sounds absolutely wonderful! Could you give us a few days though? We're currently hosting the CodeLand conference, so a lot of the team's attention is there. And we probably should have Ben's initial PR merged first.

Edit: we'll also need to update contributing docs, etc. to be explicit about not adding untranslated strings directly to views, etc. especially with Hacktoberfest being around the corner.

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yheuhtozr • Edited

Yes, thank you. It's just good to know that i18n availability comes before long. Having some leeway is also good for me to prepare and organize the code for proposal.