Offer space for dedicate cloud and self-hosted instances to list on weblate.org

[Aikatsui]

Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please describe. I believe that help to set-up big translation community, get volunteer translators for random projects and less contributed languages. Currently upto 500 projects available in hosted weblate however there're interesting instances similar https://l10n.opensuse.org but we never know unless use or personally know well about certain product or service.

As a translator side, i get more benefit from https://hosted.weblate.org page to find and get access to unexpected interesting projects that support for localization. Otherhand i see that adds some bonus to weblate platform sustainability

Describe the solution you'd like

Add another tab to https://hosted(newname?).weblate.org page as "hosted" and "dedicated" or https://name.weblate.org/ for it

[nijel]

I don't really get what you want to achieve.

There is a list of instances on a wiki page, but I'm not sure anybody still updates that (I know @comradekingu did most of the updates). Most of them are third party operated (for example https://l10n.opensuse.org/ or https://translations.documentfoundation.org/).

[comradekingu]

It is updated to ability. It isn't really a good place for it to be discovered. The blog, Hosted, the Website, those are the places I expect others to find it.

I think there is a lot of goodwill going both ways in showing others use Weblate.

As far as discovery goes, following other users/translation teams, having meta-labels for projects on an instance. I think more-so this gets into semi(?) federation?

@Aikatsui The openSUSE logo on https://weblate.org is actually clickable and links to their Weblate right now.

You mean new components or metrics about use/total amount of users/projects?

What does it look like?

[Aikatsui]

I don't really get what you want to achieve.

It's explained on first comment and below suggested page seems more perfect than to blog, github wiki or part on homepage design

@Aikatsui The openSUSE logo on https://weblate.org is actually clickable and links to their Weblate right now.

I know, it just website design as we can see on other sites as well (our clients) but it's not enough

You mean new components or metrics about use/total amount of users/projects?

It's necessary to spend more time to implement metrics and other complex features. I'm trying to make this easy to do.

What does it look like?

Below some samples, https://joinmastodon.org/communities/general https://disboard.org/servers https://discord.me/servers

Note: Modified previous UI sample due it takes unwanted space and complexity

previous UI sample


1. A suitable name
2. Existing "hosted weblate page as a tab" (no changes)
3. New tab for view self-hosted, dedicated plans instances
4. Online status (maybe basic http check every 7 days) - optional (Additionally it's possible alert instance added user if it not reachable)
5. Add new instance button
6. Widget feature has on weblate then adapt link for this to fill on "add instance"?

Domain - validate the domain through basic http check

Cards(tiles) are optional; it can be display as list view without logos etc. No relation or data transmission between weblate.org and self-hosted instances, only a page to display them

[Aikatsui]

Edits: UI sample changed (if you may already working on this and got idea from it) (reason: it takes unwanted space and may annoying to scroll and view when has many projects) previous sample able to view under "previous UI sample"

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[nijel]

It is now live at https://weblate.org/discover/

To get a server listed, it needs to run Weblate 4.5.2 (to be released in the next days) or never (or current development code).

Documentation is available at https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/support.html#discover-weblate

[Aikatsui]

Děkuju (Thank you) 🥰

1. Can you set project links to open in new tab? otherwise everytime when user click something then it leave the main page
2. Minor enhancement suggestions: discover page still seems doesn't take signed-in translators regular attention. page design already good for visitors but the purpose isn't for them, just to active community members (translators). I cannot suggest exact solution and it may need to handle somehow through design or other component adjustment
   • Everyone usually tap the big "Go Weblate" button and has less attention for upper body sign-in button on home page. may be it's possible to add description (scr 2) to it or change that button to "Sign in" (scr 2)
   • Add discover button to https://weblate.org/en/user/ page (scr 2)

[Aikatsui]

@nijel can you set this https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/wiki/References page as editable? i like to keep it updated. https://weblate.openkylin.top/ https://translations.vivaldi.com/

https://weblate.org/en/discover/ (interested parties can use it to publish their own instances)

[comradekingu]

@Aikatsui I pulled the changes out of the log when the WL equivalent got deleted https://github.com/comradekingu/posts/wiki Feel free to edit that. :) (Been meaning to do so myself.) Unfortunately it is the one where closed source projects are mixed in with libre ones, which is a total departure from DFSG guidelines. Vivaldi is somewhere in between btw. :)

[Aikatsui]

Unfortunately it is the one where closed source projects are mixed in with libre ones

It's easy to move FOSS projects to the top. I like to keep a wiki (this or your) updated as awesome-weblate This definitely useful for everyone to find on-premise instances and sometimes we can apply TM to similar projects (e.g. OS distros, Chat apps) and i forgot to say @nijel to keep weblate's wiki enabled (or didn't come that to mind)

Weblate discover - For Interested parties to add their own instances and they can collect new contributors as well. it's the best place for find on-premise instances very easily. Otherhand, now when someone come to try / self-host weblate, they can see large projects with live proof e.g. opensuse, mattermost etc Wiki - On-premise instances collection (or the unseen weblate city)

Feel free to edit that. :)

@comradekingu Thank you. But I can't edit it. You need to change permission https://github.com/comradekingu/posts/wiki