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Make sure to check out the English lolcat version in the globe menu in the upper right corner.

That's fun! It also likely serves a real purpose. It lets English-only speakers test that localization is working and available for every text element.

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Hey there, founder and lead dev of the project here! The lolcat language option was actually implemented just for fun by one of our web developers, however using it as a way to test localization is a very interesting idea! We make use of Weblate to manage our translations, so all strings do get accounted for using the tracker there before anything gets merged

I do like the idea of using a meme translation to test localization though, and if we didn't use something like Weblate I would probably steal this idea xD

Thanks for the reply, and the info on Weblate too. I’ll check it out the next time I need a localized site. Looks like a nice tool.

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