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Language Update - The morning after

8. Jul. 2008 - Comments 4

We picked up our servers from the local language school this morning and they couldn't stop babbling to us in all their new languages. We're so proud, even if we can't understand everything they say anymore.

Now that we've all drank our prosecco and posed for pictures, we have to explain just how huge this is. And we mean like walking on the moon, invention of the transistor, the discovery of oil, the first pressing of apple juice huge. This is change-how-you-see-the-world huge. Photocase is now fully multilingual: front-end, back-end, side-end, under- and over-end... From whatever angle you look at Photocase, you will now be able to see it in English, French, Spanish or German.

Bigger Fixes

  • multilingual user profiles: now you can tell people about yourself in several languages
  • multilingual photos (photo descriptions possible in several languages)
  • keyword catalog and keywording has been totally overhauled. The keyword catalog now consists of over 300,000 hierarchically sorted terms in 4 languages; automatic translation; photos that are keyworded in German can be found in any language. Now is your chance to improve the keywords for your photos. This will improve everyone's experience and make the now awesomely high-tech catalog even better.
  • multilingual content, like comments and forum posts
  • for the truly adventurous we have the confusing and glorious babel mode, which shows you everything from every language all at the same time.

The less big fixes

  • messaging within private forums now functional
  • searches within private forums work now
  • overhauled search system for photos (such as synonym assistant and homonym disambiguation)
  • overhauled search system for the News, Help, FAQ, and forum
  • various little bugs were squished

The back-end stuff

  • modified database structure to handle the different languages
  • standardized administration for editorial content like News, Help, FAQ and localisation
  • administration for the keyword catalog

A few things to remember

We're in debugging mode for the next few weeks. If you find anything strange, please let Support know, and please be as precise and concise as possible. If you suddenly can't understand Photocase it's because you're in the wrong language setting or you're wearing your grandma's glasses by mistake. Don't panic! On the far right of the brown menu bar you can change your language setting to whichever one you prefer.
There will be a few hiccups in the whole process, so if something isn't working the way you think it should, again, tell Support

A huge thanks to Kay, Susanne, Anja and Ingo for their work on the keyword catalog and Photobeagle, Froodmat, Madochab and C-Promo for testing on our development server. It couldn't have happened without you guys.

Thanks, danke, merci, gracias
Photocase

4 Comments

Dudebun
Dudebun - 8. Jul. 2008 18:31

helloooooooo

*echo*

elspiko
elspiko - 8. Jul. 2008 19:12

Hello back *echo echo*

Accela
Accela - 9. Jul. 2008 08:55

hi there updait )
but i think soon you give more)
thanks.

Dudebun
Dudebun - 9. Jul. 2008 13:13

thank goodness there are more people here! i was feeling lonely.

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