Post by olavinto » Fri Jul 07, 2023 11:01 am
There's nothing especially "wrong" with it, it just doesn't offer any actual localization features and requires managing files directly on translators side. It's not nearly as accessible for inexperienced users and it makes collaboration more difficult (especially on a string by string level). With a platform like Crowdin, translators could freely add suggestions, vote for other people's suggestions and some could act as proofreaders who approve correct/best suggestions. Additional productivity features could include, string specific comments, contextual information, glossaries for terminology (with automatic highlighting), automatic translation memory functionality and also support for many machine translation platforms among other things.
Obviously FDM is not a very large project and the implementation would change require work on your side but these platforms can make things very easy and accessible for much larger localization communities than what code repositories like GitHub are able to do (as long as the projects are public).
There's nothing especially "wrong" with it, it just doesn't offer any actual localization features and requires managing files directly on translators side. It's not nearly as accessible for inexperienced users and it makes collaboration more difficult (especially on a string by string level). With a platform like Crowdin, translators could freely add suggestions, vote for other people's suggestions and some could act as proofreaders who approve correct/best suggestions. Additional productivity features could include, string specific comments, contextual information, glossaries for terminology (with automatic highlighting), automatic translation memory functionality and also support for many machine translation platforms among other things.
Obviously FDM is not a very large project and the implementation would change require work on your side but these platforms can make things very easy and accessible for much larger localization communities than what code repositories like GitHub are able to do (as long as the projects are public).