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Please don't force translated version of an article instead of English original
When I open an MDN article found by a search engine, it automatically loads a translated version of the page. Previously there was a button "Switch to English" at the top of each article. It doesn't exist anymore.
Please don't do that.
English is a sole language I use when doing any research related to my job. I believe I'm not alone in this. I don't need to be forced to read the technical documentation in any other language.
I think it's worth noting that when I click "Change language" button, there is no English language in the dropdown. And at the top of the page there is a note saying that "This page was translated from English by the community".
Example: https://developer.mozilla.org/ru/docs/orphaned/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/some
The reason you got the translated version was probably because Google presented a /ru/ link to you. And it's very possible that the URL lead to a redirect which can happen if that URL is slightly out of date and thus doesn't existing in English anymore. So you end up in a URL that contains /orphaned/.
The reason there is no "View in English" is because the page you're on can't work simply by replacing /ru/ with /en-US/.
But there are some things I don't understand.
A) How did you stumble into this URL?
B) Why does /ru/docs/orphaned/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/some exist at all when /ru/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/some exists?!
We might have a problem with pruning @escattone
Thank you for looking into this and giving an explanation @peterbe .
But there are some things I don't understand.
A) How did you stumble into this URL?
I just made a Google search, and this is where the top result led me. It was also the only result from MDN leading to the Array.prototype.some() article.
Also, when I hover over the search result, the link looks like this:
So it seems like the URL is indeed being changed at some point.
Hi @odragora, could you check whether this is still a problem after our redesign? I feel like it could have been resolved.
@caugner Now the pages are loaded in my local language, and in order to get English version I have to dig through the options in the dropdown.
There is no separate "view original in English" button anymore.
It's a huge UX quality regression, in my opinion.