[Bug] General Language Toggle Querkiness - Ex: Profile page activity feed loads updates for the wrong language when multiple tabs are loaded in quick succession

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As the title states, it’s possible to get the profile page activity feed to load the wrong language feed if you try to load two separate tabs with different languages.

I’m able to consistently reproduce the behaviour by opening the “viewing [Language]” drop down, middle-clicking to open another language in a new tab, then quickly clicking on a different language in the original tab. The new tab will load the page under the page routing of whatever language you clicked on, but will seemingly contain the activity info for whichever language was last requested (the one you click on in the original tab).

I’ve tested the behaviour across a few different user pages now, all of which do the same thing. I’m currently on Firefox, haven’t tested it on anything else.

Here’s a picture of the result:

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I’ve had the same thing happen on Chrome

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I noticed this before…

This has also happened to me a few times: Bug: New book added under wrong language when a different language open in another tab.

It’s not a huge issue at the moment, but the more languages are added and the more people with multiple languages on their profile, the more often it’ll happen. :sweat_drops:

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Is this still happening?

Not using multiple languages in Natively, so it’s hard for me to confirm without playing with my account data :sweat_smile:

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I know there are still issues with pages randomly switching to another language if you have another tab opened in that language, and the language logo is very often wrong. That I can say for sure. The activity bug though, at least I haven’t encountered it recently, so that may have been fixed.

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Alright, I think that might be related to the behaviour of the site right now, producing other issues such as:

So moving it up for review, but linking them as potentially related.

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Ok! I’ve renamed this bug to ‘general language toggle querkiness’ to capture more general bugs like @HopeWaterfall was describing. I think this is fixed!

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This is still a bit buggy on my end, the logo often defaults to Japanese, no matter what language I’m looking at. Screenshots were taken just now

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Huh, really.. i can’t seem to replicate :frowning:

What steps are you doing? And what’s your browser & version?

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I’m on DuckDuckGo, Chrome, on a PC. Testing from Google right now though, the same thing happens.

As for the process, I check the page in one language, then I switch to another language (usually from the book search page, although I think it also happens from the dashboard). It’s pretty 50/50, sometimesw it works fine, but half of the time the logo doesn’t match the language. So if I change languages once it might be fine, but if I do it twice I’ll most llikely encounter the bug

Edit: I just checked on Firefox+Google, the bug is there as well

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Ugh - I just can’t replicate it :pensive_face:.

We’ll be doing some more work in this area when the new dashboard comes out, so i’ll hold off doing more until then. For me some things have been fixed :confused: