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Comment by manuelflara | Hacker News Reader

Quick feedback: you should let people filter by language or something. The first three I tried (after that I didn't try anymore) all had statuses in some Eastern European language which I don't speak, so I assumed they wouldn't speak English. I have to say this is also a problem with Facebook's News Feed when you have friended people from all over the world, and it's annoying.

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Yes, we need to differentiate users at least based on their language.

I am not sure which method to use in order to differentiate users. We can use geo-ip databases but I want to be sure that they are reliable. Maybe we can just let users select a location.

Any ideas?

Don't mix language and location. I might be in Spain but I might want to chat in Finnish.

For language, yes, allow the user to set it. However, you can probably use the Accept-Language http header to get the right language for most users.

Yes, we may try the Accept-Language. But I need to make sure that it is reliable.

There is a discussion about this: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-accept-lang-loc...

Why not try a combination?

As long as the user can ultimately decide on their own, you can try a best guess for them. Just make it easy to switch and let the user know first thing.

Yes, I think that would be the best solution.

As a follow-up I ran into the exact same issue as above. I think the language-matching is really a must for an app like this to ensure users have a good experience their first time.

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