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Busy new-design & Multilanguage: Call for Translators!
Few days ago we announced a 'Call for Private Beta testers'.
Many of you have joined the new version. We would like to thank everyone for all the good vibes and fantastic feedbacks we received! This is very constructive and invigorating.

We want to target users in emerging markets. For a very long time since its conception, the internet was dominated by English-speaking users. Today, the situation is radically different. We will see English becoming the language of a web minority, pushed away from its spot by Chinese, Indian, or even Spanish, Afrikaans and Arabic. China+India = more than 1 billion internet users in 2016.
Top 20/source: http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users-by-country/
Serving a global audience is part of our growth strategy. It involves translation, localization and internationalization. We are now translating the Busy new version to have a real Multilingual platform.
Starting with English, we currently have 16 languages on Busy interface. Our priority is to target Asia (Chinese, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, etc.) but we want Busy to be translated in all languages.
Depending on the language setting of the accessing browser, users will be automatically redirected to the interface translated in their native language. They can also select a specific one in Settings.
Few Steemians helped us by contributing with their native language.
| Language | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Czech | @espoem and @viktor.phuket |
| Filipino | @eastmael |
| French | @fabien |
| German | @tarekadam |
| Indonesian | @macchiata |
| Japanese | @inoue |
| Polish | @sekhmet |
| Romanian | @ntony |
| Russian | @testz and @irishabstainer |
| Spanish | @simnrodrguez |
| Swedish | @the-ego-is-you |
| Turkish | @moorkedi, @hightouch and @overmybrain |
Thanks to every contributor! Chinese, Thai, Lao, and more, are in progress.
Call for volunteers + Bounty reward
This is a Call for volunteer Translators!
We are rewarding competent translators who want to contribute to this mission.
All contributors helping with a translation of Busy to their native languages will get 20 STEEM as bounty reward.

We use Crowdin
Crowdin is a localization project management platform and translation tool.
We are using it to help translators and proofreaders having a better user experience contributing to Busy translation.
It's also easy to integrate with Busy codebase on GitHub and to manage.
You need a crowdin account to participate.
Current status
https://crowdin.com/project/busy

How to participate
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Contact @fabien in Discord or Steemit.chat to book a language and get access to our new design
https://discord.gg/fGAMtzQ -
Visit https://crowdin.com/project/busy and create an account if you don't have one
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Select your language (click on flag) on https://crowdin.com/project/busy
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Click on
en.jsonand start to translate! -
When you complete your translation, contact @fabien so we can review it, activate on the interface and send you the reward

Replies (175)
Sir why you are busy?
I cross test the new busy.org using top 20 browser and I dont find any issue. Also a cross device, bit slow with mobile phone but still meet the benchmark. Overall no problem
very nice article @busy.org, shared about new design and multi language call for translators, nice updates and news about different native languages used in steemit, nice efforts, i support and appricate your efforts.
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is there any rewards for proofreading? I am from Belgium (so thats Flemish/Dutch and French) and I live in Switzerland so that German as well and I see that those have not been voted yet (which i assume is done by proofreading?)
Before opening the site in a browser-setting language, please confirm this is what the user wants.
It's better than geolocating and deciding the language based on location, which actually sucks monkey balls. But it's still annoying when you're at someone else's pc, or an internet cafe and all off a sudden a site appears in a language you don't understand.
And why not add flags to easily change between languages, there's still room on the page for that?
Nice project! Keep it going
I can help with #Nepali if you have any option.
Wow I am. Extremely happy with this update 🙌
thanks a lot @fabien and my dear friends @hightouch , @overmybrain it'll be amazing interface for me :D like it ! ND @busy.org !
*PS Please Vote Turkish Lang .
I like reading your post @busy.org, keep it up!
I can't login on busy ( v2) with my posting key why?
is that a rhetorical question @badol1994? he have the right to answer anything since the steemit accept it.
very nice post
Hello sir.......
Busy is basically Twitter, but decentralized correct... didn't Julian want something like this?
Now I decide to use it, seems that these guys complete much work on design while researchers busy working on tech and blockchain
good news, I wish you success always,
That great, internalization is a plus
You could probably offer a bigger bounty if you want quality translations... 20 is pretty low.
You could likely offer a greater abundance in the event that you need quality interpretations... 20 is truly low.
AMAZING article @busy.org, REALLY GREAT POST.
Busy is another interface to interact with the Steem blockchain.
I enjoyed reading your post. There's a lot of good information
Woww..its so helping me.thanks for sharing
Russian translation is ready, please give me proofreader permissions in order to be able to approve translations.
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Great idea. What about the real international language Esperanto?
Mi estas preta traduki por vi/ni.
You can select among different languages directly in the Settings page.
Browser language is a good solution, there is no perfect solution. And of course we don't use geolocation.
Adding flags for languages on the main page is not user friendly so we use autodetection + settings to allow more freedom without confirming that the users wants. It's is also more efficient in my opinion than asking everyone.
I don't think you will face a case where you don't speak Chinese, but your Chrome Browser is set to Chinese, so Busy.org will display in Chinese. Unless you're using Busy directly in China, on a internet cafe.
thanks for your input anyway, we re working on improvments on this
it's really helpfu for us.
depending on how many words we talk about.
Right now it's only 60-80 words.
It can be done very quick.
Great news.
@fabien I've applied for the translation into Slovenian language. Our community here is gathered behind @teamslovenia account.
Nice article keep it going 👍
@fabien, I have PMd you on Discord.... get back to me if my help would be of any use! :)
This an awesome opportunity to do some good work on here,@fabian i would love to be part of this great movement which is busy.org..patiently expecting your reply authorising me.
I would like to help, but there is one from Venezuela: c
Happy day.
I disagree. I live near Benidorm, you should see all the English in Internet cafes, trying to print their boarding passes. These pc's are normally set so Spanish, you can see people struggle to find the basic information.
While I agree browser detection is a better solution than geolocation, I still feel that besides the detection, language flags are very user friendly. A lot more than going to settings to change the language. Especially since that setting is "hidden" in the menu, I just found it for the first time because of this post ;-)
thanks
Just vote for Romanian :)
Me parece que la idea esta bien desarrollada es una oportunidad en los que muchos se ven beneficiados y por vuestra parte igual. Keep working guys.
быстро и четко :)
Hey! i am portuguese (portugal) interested in help translate english to portuguese. 🇵🇹
We set you as proofreader on Crowdin. Thank you for your contribution!
Ahh ok that is fair.
Great works!
I think eSteem app is also doing translations for many of these languages, wouldn't it be good if you can use their translations. It might save time and money.
muy buena publicación me gusto mucho
Kiam vi volas. Are you in Discord or Steemit.chat?
hi i new
i understand your point. Thanks for your input. The solution for this will probably have to allow user to easily switch language from the homepage instead of going into Settings.
@manandezo, uma grande oportunidade para você amigo.
Hey @fabien, in the portuguese language community here at Steemit we have a brazilian member who works as a professional translator. His name is @manandezo and I believe he can help you translate it into portuguese.
Hi @busy.org!
I will translate English into Vietnamese
This is great! It gives opportunity for people from various countries. Hopefully we see more languages added to the list of translation requirement! @busy.org
Simplified Chinese
DONE
for Chinese:如果有错误的,请大家一起帮忙改正,谢谢
To the moon!!!
needed....... post
Nice chance to be the great translator app.
Very glad to hear this app
Hopefully can help
any stemian over the world.
Iam from Indonesia. I found the stemian from my country has dedicated for to be bahasa translater.
Can't be wait to try this beta app
Good luck for all of you.
Thank you very much for the voted.
very nice article
any Indian languages ?
Saluton, no I prefere to read and write.
Added hebrew.
הוספתי עברית.
Goodluck
Thank you for this post.
Great app, can't wait to use it
We print books on 54 different languages. This is actually for us.
How about Indonesia. Bahasa Indonesia is the largest language in the world. Is there any contributor?
Awesome! Thank you very much, i'm going to update the website in 10min. Can you get in contact with me in Steemit.chat or Discord for the reward?
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The active key is only used to make the operation in your browser then discarded, nothing stay or goes to the server.
Hey, proofreader are very welcome but we don't have a reward program for this yet.
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You can translate Esperanto here: https://crowdin.com/translate/busy/13/en-eo
Welcome :)
Awesome thank you! You can translate Busy for Nepali here: https://crowdin.com/translate/busy/13/en-nenp
Wow, do you have native translators?
Thank you, our new interface has been already translated in Bahasa Indonesia :)
Thank you, that would be great!
Thank you that would be great! Here you can do translation in portuguese: https://crowdin.com/translate/busy/13/en-pt
I am professional translator in English and Arabic language . How much do you pay for this service ?
i like your posts. interesting things become my choice for comment .. good job.
Thanks! You are doing a great job making a frontend in a way that it is supposed to be!
Thank you for your contribution.
New busy.org is the best reward for me.
Thank you
nice
great beta tests like these are really going to help a lot this is a win win condition for everyone and these type of platforms break the language barriers !
hatsoff fellas !
Hi! I would be able to help with translation into German if still needed! Just contact me!
Other than that, great Post! :)
Ok I'm In.
Thank you! I just finished it :) messaged you on discord
No Malayy??
sorry...just saw it after i klik the site..
may i know who translate Malay????
Good work here... I wish I could also contribute greatly but my choice of language Is limited. 😭😭😭😭
the translation by the translater was very funny..
i cant stop laughing...hahaha
Ho really? Isn't good? The translator for Malay is @incrediblesnow, feel free to improve it!
We pay 20 STEEM for a complete translation. Arabic has already been translated see https://crowdin.com/project/busy/ar
Nice, have you guys also checked phrases here http://translate.esteem.ws maybe some will be similar?! 😉
Thank tou contributor.
Regard
@steem77
Thank you so much for the mention @jsantana. I will try and follow the steps to get into the platform and begin translating into Portuguese (Fortunately, using Edge I could also access busy.org, what I could never do using Chrome).
Thanks U for inform
Mong các bạn Việt Nam kiểm tra và Hỗ trợ.
@fabian I can translate to afrikaans
What a great way to learn new languages. Wish I was more fluent.
Congratulations @busy.org!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following categories:
i didnt say its not good..i just say so funny cause its Malay/Indonesia and English mixed together ..
and i tought its been translated already
Afrikaans translation completed @fabien . Please get in contact with me
a few hours ago I was talking to a friend of mine that English it's a real problem for us... If we knew the language at a different level, maybe the quality of our posts would increase exponentially...
Lucky us we're not storytellers, we just present our arts the way we can better...
But this is a great initiative, congratulations and good luck!
Thank you!!!:)
Enjoy @nature.art, my kind of art!:)
Just opened an account, but what shall I do than? Where can I find the text?
This is great! I just translated the Norwegian part, so now we just need someone to verify it. There are some sentences that are a bit difficult to translate, so it would be great if we got another person to take a look at my translations.
Dont you need Iranian translator? I can provite that if u ever wanted to add Persian as well.
Thank you so much of the information here was unknown to me
Good job
Thank you too dear @steem77
:)) for #tr aprox 10 12 min .
Nice
Hello good post my name is Yudexis Jaume and I am from venezuela can you give a vote to my last post?
Great step. I contributed my job of translation for it, thanx for giving me a chance :)
Welcome brother @moorkedi
Nice & great translator app.
Interesting !!! I sent a message to @fabien in discord.
This is a great project!
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I think I can help you with Ukrainian, my native language. I made the main part of Ukrainian translation for eSteem:-)
good
Its very helpfull
Thank you for sharing it
Great job bro.i resteem this post.i hope this post will be in hot list.best of luck.
100% upvote for what it is worth, as a thank you for all of your hard work. Busy.org saved me the other week when Steemit.com went down with the DDoS.
The Busy.org design is looking good, and I must say the functionality is maturing. It may even take over as the premier interface to the Steemit blockchain one day.
Again, thank you. =)
Definitely will look into to this to help whenever is possible.
I set up account. I can help with Japanese.
nice bro
@busy please upvote my post @fadlie
Please contact me by email my email is [email protected] or in our Discord server or Steemit.chat, my username is @fabien so i can give you access to the beta with the instructions.
Ура! Сам как увидел, хотел поучаствовать, но круто, что уже всё готово :)
thx for all your good work.. I hope you also check out:
https://steemit.com/steemfest/@rival/art-for-steemfest-2-my-daughter-made-a-wonderful-contribution-please-check-this-out
really looking forward for this, I CANT WAIT TILL THE 20th!
I want to participate.
Just finish the translation to hebrew.
i would love to see romanian translation ready ,my native language
Send message to @fabien .
I can work on Tamil language translation. Add "Tamil" in to your Crowdin project.
Great❤
I think we will have a Hungarian version. ;)
you are a good writer..
I upvoted and comment for you. Please upvote and comment for helping me grow @mdfoysal
I support what you are doing and am impressed with your mission and understanding of the direction things are going online. Unfortunately I don't think my Ppanish is good enough to help, but I wish you all the luck int he world!
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STOPHi @fabien! I am a Filipino. I will gladly help in translating text/articles from English to Filipino.
That's fantastic! I do alot of translating from English to Spanish for people in need, great job!😊
This was a successful strategy for eSteem and I'm glad to see Busy.org use it too.
Thanks for the update.
Lately Steemit.com constantly went down, so I was using the Steemit editor to edit then copy-paste it here in busy.org to post. Sometimes the links and the pictures are gone. I wonder if it is normal?
great project busy! Always on when steemit is down!!!
Its be long coment than articles.. Nice..
the best site busy org we like follow this site 100% real work
Really good.
plz like my post too sir
Very good my post.
I see you upvote lots of posts how you decide what to upvote also what is the service you provide is it an online translator? most of the times when I see a post on steemit in another language a box pops up asking if I want to translate sometimes it doenst though. any ideas why?
Крутая тема!)
Nice post...you r awesome
visit me sometime. lol your upvote matters a lot
wonderful
Its amazing and really useful, Thank for help ingin make all steemit.com feel happy.
@busy.org, I wanna asik a question, what are the rule or terms to use #busy in the article
I enjoyed reading your post. There is a lot of good stuff.
@kachinhenry guess we are still not in this standard.. :)
wonderful sir
Good job @eastmael
Thanks @deveerei :) the Filipino translation still needs a reviewer.
Anything I can do to help?
Can you please add language translator plug in in busy.org
Actually there is. If you go to the site, you'll see that Filipino is 0% approved.
So I think basically, each of the translation need to be voted. There are entries there that have multiple translations, the voter will choose which is the better translation to use.
Ohhhh - I thought progress is at 97%.
Actually, I saw it yesterday, there were several items added to the translation list that's why it went down to 97%. But now, all items have been translated and the translations just have to be voted on. :)
I'm voting translation now to help.
Thanks po. very much appreciate it to make the Filipino translation approved.
Walang anuman - it's like community service. :D It's for us Filipinos anyway.
Yes, community or public service. :) Please feel free to add a new translation or entry as you see fit. Always good to have fresh eyes. :)
Will do if needed or if I have more time. :) Lots of things to do.
Thank you. Very much appreciate it.
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It was very helped for me and the other person @busy.org
Thanks @busy.org. I really like the busy, let alone look very friendly. Here's my writing about busy.
https://busy.org/steemit/@cepul/steemit-or-busy-english-version
Great job 👍