My experience with modding an external community hasn’t been too bad, but it’s a very lightly used community, and there’s also a mod with a local account, which gives a certain level of safety.

I’ll chime in here - I don’t know if this is OP’s issue, but I have experienced issues in the past with being able to clearly tell which languages in the list are selected, and/or the selected language settings saving properly.

I haven’t played around with it in months, but at the time I thought maybe it was just my browser theme/system colour settings that were making it hard to tell exactly what was selected.

I agree with those who are saying that a list of possible languages with accompanying check boxes would be more intuitive than the current implementation.

Ah, I gotcha.

Each community has the power to restrict the languages used in that community.

I can’t speak to the effectiveness of the system, as I don’t really spend time in non-English communities, but it’s certainly a poorly-documented feature.

It ensures that people who can’t read your post (that is, they have that language deselected in their own account settings) won’t see it.

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Yeah, it looks like you’re right.

It seems to work for me - it switches all replies to appear as top-level comments, and sorts everything by “Old.”