Alternative comment translation providers (beyond Google)

[virgile-dev]

Hey guys,

We've been experimenting with your automatic translation feature for the comments. We've been translating french comment to dutch and vice versa.

We figured you might be interested in our feedback 😊.

Missing translation button for the comments shown bellow the visualization

While it's really handy when voting on comments I feel it'd be great to navigate inside the visualization.

Google translation are really not great between French and Deutsch

Lot's of people have been recommending us Deepl as an alternative to Google Translate : https://www.deepl.com/press.html

Have you guys been thinking of switching ?

Thanks in advance :)

EDIT: patcon struck out first bit (handled in #250)

[virgile-dev]

@mbjorkegren Hey did you have time to have a look a this issue ? Thanks 😊

[patcon]

Interestingly, as of late 2017, it was conversion from English => other that was a so much stronger. Google seems to excel more on other => English

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/29/deepl-schools-other-online-translators-with-clever-machine-learning/

(Deepl is based in Europe, fwiw -- Germany, specifically)

Implementation seems simple. Could perhaps negotiate a feature to add your own Deepl API key, and pol.is could use it if provided? https://github.com/pol-is/polisServer/blob/master/server.js#L2009-L2014

[patcon]

Potential labels: break-me-up

[patcon]

Ok, updating this! First comment is being dealt with in #250, so struck out, if that's alright :)

Going to re-scope this to be about supporting other translation providers, as that's definitely worth having an issue open about 😄

Thanks! Pls do speak up if my changes stray from your intention