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Transifex Blog
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Transifex Blog is the company blog at transifex.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2013, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Transifex as a localization platform for translating software strings, with API and CLI integrations. The comments name it as a tool to use rather than discussing the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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We agree that localization is super important. TextSecure is localized into 30 languages already. We use Transifex to crowdsource it: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/textsecure-official/
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on “The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS”Submitted Re-imagining Software Localization: End-to-end, cloud-based localization stack as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHey, I'm the co-lead developer of Signal. We're looking for help with translations, help us out to bring Signal to as many people as possible: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/signal-ios/ We also pay per commit if you want to help on Open Whisper Systems projects: http://bithub.whispersystems.org/
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on “Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone”Submitted Open Sourcing the Transifex Engineering Manifesto as a story · 6 points
HN discussionActually, you can contribute to ownCloud translations at: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/owncloud/
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on “Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google”Submitted Transifex offers a repatriation bonus to lure Greek expats as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm from Torchbox, the creators and maintainers of this project. It's nice to see Wagtail back on HN. For those who saw my original Show HN post a couple of months ago, here's as overview of progress since then: - Tests: stung by some of the (very reasonable) criticisms after launch, we worked hard to increase our test coverage - https://coveralls.io/r/torchbox/wagtail - Docs: still a way to go, but our documentatio…
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on “A new Django content management system”Submitted Lessons we learned while using Elasticsearch to build our new Translation Memory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recommend putting it up on http://transifex.com for translation, we use that for ownCloud too. There’s a command-line tool to update strings and to import new translations, and Transifex is open source as well.
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on “Photographer.io is now open source”Hi there. Our organisation, Security First ( https://www.secfirst.org ) has just launched Umbrella - a free, open source, Android app to help activists, journalists and travellers manage their digital and physical security in high risk countries. Built by media, NGO, human rights and technology security professionals. The lessons give you simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering…
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on “Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (November 2016)”Liberapay uses Weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/liberapay/core/ Gratipay uses Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/gratipay/gratipay/
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on “Ask HN: Patreon for open source?”For WeKan Open Source kanban https://wekan.github.io , very lightweight process. I release new versions very often https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md . WeKan has MIT license, used in most countries of the world https://snapcraft.io/wekan . Everything is Open Source, all updates are free, no registration required. WeKan is translated to about 70 languages https://transifex.com/wekan/wekan so it's…
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on “Ask HN: How does your company release software?”Haven't used it too much myself, but people seem to be happy with http://www.transifex.com/
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on “Ask HN: What business would you start, given $100K?”Check out Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/ . We built it for developers. There's an API and command-line client to make pushing/pulling content easy. A lot of people also integrate Transifex with Jenkins or some other CI tool. Disclosure: I work there.
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on “Ask HN: How do you translate your app?”Definitely recommend externalizing your strings into one of the standard localization file formats (.po, .strings, XLIFF etc.) as mtmail suggested. Once your content is in a file, you'll be able to use a platform like Transifex (disclosure: I work there) to manage and automate your localization process. You'll be able to invite your translators, track the progress of work, and communicate directly with them. Once th…
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on “Ask HN: How are you managing your localization across platforms?”Look for .po files, xliff or .property files. There are quite a few standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_memory There is desktop software as well as SaaS websites who offer to manage those files with online editors for you. Some have APIs that allow you to pull new translations (or whole files in the format of your choice). It makes it also easier when dealing with external translators or if you're in…
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on “Ask HN: How are you managing your localization across platforms?”W3C has good basic info on what internationalization and localization each mean: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-i18n.en Many developers will make a start by: - Internationalizing their strings. In the case of Android, this is typically achieved by moving hard coded strings from the code to a separate strings.xml file - Localizing those strings: Having one or more professional or volunteer translators c…
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on “Ask HN: Solutions for internationalization and localization?”https://www.transifex.com/ Query for all texts that lack a translation: this is the default behavior in the translation interface. Bulk export/import: there's an API and a CLI client for it. You can also make it automatically pull new strings to translate from a git repo. (Not sure whether it has to be public, in our case it is.) Track the source: for changes made through the web UI, this happens automatically. If y…
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on “Ask HN: Managing Translated Texts”I'd highly recommend using Transifex. https://www.transifex.com . They have many integrations and their API is pretty solid. You can easily hook Transifex into your build pipeline. As an example at my place of work we've got it set up so that on master merges when the test are running on CircleCI all source (English) strings are pushed to Transifex. Once all necessary strings are pushed to Transifex, you place your…
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on “Ask HN: How to do translations before release?”Transifex is free for OSS: https://www.transifex.com/signup/
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on “Ask HN: How do you Gain Contributors for Localization of FOSS?”http://transifex.com is one option
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on “Ask HN: does exists something like github for translations?”
