instead of forking the original extension and publishing it under a new name, why did you not improve on the original one and make that one better, aside from the confusion you prevent with users, you wouldn't have had the issue with translations
although you forked the code from v17, you did not include their copyright information as is required by the same license you included; open source allows you to use code however you want, yet copyrights must remain intact
I applaud any effort to work in open source, make sure you do it respectfully though.
Good luck!
Hello @daocatt ,
I left some feedback about this extension on the Flarum official community: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/36248-translate-gtdxyzflarum-ext-badges/2
Here's a copy: