Issue in Summary : While logged into to my inaturalist account, via my Brave Browser, on Linux Mint the observations are only displaying the Scientific Name and rendering the dates in Hindi. Even though my settings are to display Common Name (& Scientific Name) for Locale India (Country)
Platform (Android, iOS, Website): - Website accessed via Brave Browser - on Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
@ram_k Weirdly I see that our system has your locale set as Hindi but we don’t actually support Hindi (neither the website or app have been translated into Hindi). I suspect that’s what’s causing these issues, although I’m not sure how your account setting got there in the first place.
When you go to the Account Settings page of your account, what do you see for Language/Locale?
OK, I can replicate. We allow you to choose Hindi (or at least it shows up as hi if I look at my account info in the staff-only user curation page) as an option in our Android app even though the app has only been about 2% translated into Hindi. I’m not sure why we allow you to choose Hindi there, I’ll inquire. Anyway, if I select Hindi as my language in the Android app, I still see English on my Account Settings page on the web but my user info shows hi. I can then replicate the time display and common names issues here.
Our website has been 0% translated into Hindi and it’s not an option there, and the system seems to be getting confused by the hi setting from the app. If you go to the Android app and choose English as your language then reload those pages (eg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103466471) on the website do the proper names appear?
@tiwane
Thanks, am pretty sure I have not (and would very rarely) selected Hindi – knowing the state of Hindi translation
However I checked the language settings on my android phone iNaturalist app - and it was set to use device language settings (which is also set to English) and changed that to English. So normal service is restored.
Am still unsure why inaturalist should have picked up Device settings and started using Hindi even though my phone settings are set to use English
Wow, that’s weird! Yeah, I’m not sure how your account got into that state but I do see en for your account now. We should remove Hindi and any other similarly untranslated languages from the app.