QuantumBadger / QuantumBadger/RedReader

[feature request] "Translate this comment" button

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Description

Tldr: please add a button/option for "translate this comment"

Why:
Reddit enshitification is moving on and more and more user just post in their native language.
Suddenly you have people reply to you in Spanish while you were typing in English.

Now you could change Reddit settings to auto translate. Not sure if this works in Redreader, however this wouldn't save this issue anyways.

As I'm bilingual and I want to read English comment in English and German comments obviously in German. I don't want to globally translate either into the other.

However when there's a non German or non English comment, I need an easy option to translate.

Right now I need to copy paste the whole comment, switch app, translate and deal with a broken formatting and then go back into the Reddit app.

If a conversation goes on for longer, this is very tedious.

Ultimate long therm solution: let me select all languages I want to automatically translate and which not to translate.

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Research direction

No files, tests, entry points, or translation service are named. First locate the Android comment actions and review any existing translation or language-preference support, then clarify the provider, supported languages, and whether the initial scope is per-comment translation only. Done should mean a user can translate one comment without changing global language settings.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android, java
Domain
localization, mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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