Flickr Goes Multilingual
June 12, 2007 | In: Internet
In the middle of March, the photo-sharing-website aka Flickr announced the future addition of a new language which was Chinese. But 3 months after the announcement, they actually added 7 languages, including: French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.
According to TC this is an obvious step because half the Flickr users are non-US people. But the only problem is that the final result isn’t pretty, for example the Portuguese version is not good at all, they could have hired better people to make the translation to actual Portuguese instead of Portuguese from Brazil.
On the other hand I already got used to similar situations in which websites want to make their service available for more people, but in the end they screw it all by making poor translations – Flickr is one of those cases.
