"Have a good game."

I’d like “Have a good game.” to be included in the chat drop-down menu.

“Have fun.” is good enough, but it sometimes sounds a bit too cheerful, bordering on ironic, as if what I actually meant was “I am going to destroy you”.

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You can edit those chat options with the button titled “Edit” with a pencil icon.

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Thanks, I’d never seen that pencil.

I had always assumed these options were available in multiple languages, depending on the site interface language, and therefore fixed.

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A reasonable assumption, because that is how similar feature on some other servers work and is perhaps a better feature in general (except for the lack of editability as you desire).

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One thing I assumed about these drop-downs was that they were tied to the user so it will be the same no matter where I opened OGS. How wrong I was.

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You may have both (translation and editability)

Probably stored in browser local storage.

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What languages are supported by the default optional comments?

I think we have the ability to make these “account level” rather than “device level”.

I wonder if we should do that? :face_with_monocle:

Or does it make sense that you might have a different set depending on whether you’re on your phone or your desktop?

I can imagine a default on my phone that says “Hi, I’m on my phone, sorry I can’t chat here”.

The default optional comments are supported by OGS normal translation - that is to say, they are available in the list of phrases the volunteer translators can translate, and the translation will be presented to users who have selected a display language where it’s been done.

You can test this by going to Settings → General and changing your display language selection.

If you choose a language where the translation is available, the translation will show up for you:

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Mh… but then again, if we can have a few such optional greetings, we could just as well have them everywhere, no?

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I’m not sure what you mean.

The thing is this: right now, you have a different set of these for each device (I think!).

The thing I was musing is whether you’d prefer to have the same set for all your devices: the set associated with your account.

I pretty much concluded “actually, the way it is … is good” :slight_smile:

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Yes, it is so, just checked with the iPhone — and also with a different browser on the Mac, as desktop every browser has its own cookies; do smartphone browsers use shared cookies?

What I mean is this:

If I can have a set of a few – i.e. more than one – optional greetings that I can EDIT to my liking, then I’d definitely prefer to have them linked to my profile and not to my devices, for several reasons:

  • Easier to edit on desktop than on a smartphone, so I’d create my mobile greetings on desktop

  • Less work in case I use the same personal greeting everywhere

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Hah hah so compelling arguments in both directions :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Gee, that’s a surprise :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Don’t see that often around these parts :sweat_smile:

Nice. But what if you don’t know the target language? How do you know what English it corresponds to? I use a cell phone Go app that lets you choose from some standard phrases, like “That’s a good move!” or “Oops, my mistake.” or “Have a great game!” and send the phrase to the opponent in the opponent’s language. I was hoping OGS would do the same thing.

Well sure, if anyone would like to implement some kind of auto translation into OGS…

Not sure it’s on the highest priorities.

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Don’t go fishing when your house is on fire :rofl:

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Yeah I think that whatever the way things advance, the big change in introducing automatch is on the grill right now.

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That’s exactly what happens - I showed you in my screenshot what a Greek opponent will see if they have selected Greek and you choose one of those standard phrases.

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And your screenshot showed no English equivalent for each phrase, as I pointed out. An English player should see the phrases in English, and a Greek player should see them translated into Greek. That wasn’t clear from your single screenshot. If there is an automatic translation, you didn’t make that clear. And does the automatic translation apply to any comment, or just to a standard set of comments? If to a standard set, what are the standard comments in English? I’m just not clear what OGS supports or does not support.

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