I concur with @mikenz66. Itās not easy to link without having to type the ID onto body of the post.
To help out and minimize the trouble for you, would you like posters to type the ID on the body?
with aƱjali and mettÄ,
russ
I concur with @mikenz66. Itās not easy to link without having to type the ID onto body of the post.
To help out and minimize the trouble for you, would you like posters to type the ID on the body?
with aƱjali and mettÄ,
russ
Thanks @Russell. I think itās good to clarify the best and/or most efficient way of setting up things so that the site works well.
I agree, the automatic linking should work from the title, hopefully this is possible.
Discuss & Discover and Textual Details options inside the sidebar on a sutta text page arenāt there for any language except English
is this a part of the design?
iām trying not to dare to presume that their accessibility could be useful for readers of other languages as well
Yes, I think itās just an oversight
On a related note, would it be OK to post Essays/AV in Chinese, or is it best to keep things in English for now? For example, Chuang Chāun-chiang čę„ę±, many of whose Chinese translations are on suttacentral, has written guided readings of 12 MA suttas and 20 SA suttas.
I suppose in the future one could do something clever with tags so that you can choose whether or not to see Discourse posts in other languages.
I must say I am thrilled to see this idea take off so well, and to see such interest in it. Our aim is, absolutely, that there should be resources in multiple languages. How that is to happen is something we havenāt considered yet.
There are two distinct issues.
There are different ways of approaching this. The simplest would be to introduce a way of posting topics that allowed distinguishing languages. We could include a language tag, for example, maybe assign āEnglishā by default, and if youāre posting in another language you can specify that. Then, on SuttaCentral, your results would be only for the language that youāve chosen to read suttas in.
This wouldnāt be (all that) hard to implement, but it would pretty much render Discourse useless as an actual forum. At the moment weāre both a forum and a place for posting resources, but if thereās lots of stuff in different languages, conversation will be impossible.
A better option, I think, would be to support people from different language backgrounds to run their own Discourse instance. Once we have our system worked out, we can communicate with those working with the websites in different languages, most of who we know already, and, if they want, set up forums for them. Then they do the moderation, foster conversation, and run the site, while we provide technical support. Posts from the different āofficialā forums would get pulled on to SuttaCentral, once again, based on the language selected there.
This would get more complicated in terms of things like, how do we organize updates and so on. And of course it relies on finding interested and competent people to help. So itās something that needs a deal of care and consideration before moving forward, and we need to have the kinks pretty much ironed out here before going ahead.
In any case, these are a couple of approaches that Iāve thought of, probably there are other ways of doing it as well.
TL;DR: Weād love to support different languages on Discourse, but weāre not sure how to do it yet.