geizhals.eu is in German

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osaft — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:06:00 GMT

Hey everyone!

I'd like to thank Geizhals for providing an English version for such a long time. I've grown accustomed to it and used to link Geizhals to my English-speaking friends a lot. Although the translations weren't always 100% accurate, Geizhals provides an incredibly useful search engine for products. Its filters are so powerful, that I've recommended Geizhals.eu to people outside the European market to research and compare products.

Geizhals is honestly the most powerful product comparison website I've seen. Please bring back English, so I can once more share Geizhals links and screenshots with my non-German-speaking contacts.

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draze — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:35:53 GMT

Hello,

Could you share an update on this issue?

Thanks.

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draze — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:49:51 GMT

Could we get an update on the reversion to English for the .eu site? It's my favourite and only site to find new and existing tech products, and it's nigh impossible to use as it is now.

The only alternative I've found was the Geizhals app on mobile that still has English as an option, but desktop version is much preferred.

Thanks.

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traut — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:14:27 GMT

I had suggested some time ago to keep the specs within relational database. This would be much more suitable for checks, adjustments - and here for translations to different languages.

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LLL_JJJ — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:48:44 GMT

Hello!

So when cen we expect the English version back on, provided this is what you meant by "short/medium term we will provide the static content geizhals.eu in English"? By the way, what does "the static content geizhals.eu" mean, exactly?

Thanks!

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oOBlubOo — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:19:07 GMT

Hey!

Over the last week we evaluated various suggestions from this thread as well as other options and came to the following conclusions:
- the former translation system is quality wise not up to our standards, an enormous manual work and on top of that technically hard to maintain
- translation of the product data and filter adds up to 30+ mio text strings, so a manual approach is not really feasible, regardless of the underlying tool/system
- the bergamot project is interesting, we have tested the client based setup, which works quite well but unfortunately has the caveat, that the translation modules have a 30MB payload per session, which is in our point of view not ideal without the user knowing. For those interested, the Firefox extension can be downloaded here > https://browser.mt/

Next steps:
- short/medium term we will provide the static content geizhals.eu in English
- long term we will continue evaluating a proper automated solution e.g. server side implementation of bergamot but we currently cannot promise an ETA or if the evaluation will result in a feasible solution

Best regards,
Blub

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wunderbra — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 04:51:22 GMT

Btw that link you posted is broken. Go under hardware and try click a category, just blank screen

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wunderbra — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 04:40:26 GMT

Well that was a weird test, but you can stop now. Thank you.

Took me a minute to figure out since I wasnt on the site for some time if I was just hallucinating the site being in English for like 10 years.

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dismuter — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:53:17 GMT

Hallo,

I hope that you will consider that test a failure and enable English again
I don't know what your expectations are (perfection?) but the expectations of users who would understand English better than German are better met with the imperfect (but still very good) English version of the website.

MfG

Re: geizhals.eu is in German

Coool — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:46:26 GMT

I thought that with age we're getting better, but looks like Geizhals decisions makers returning to Stone Age. Suggest you implement https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate and hire some new talented people who are willing to do better.