When your language preference is set to English, then non-English content should not be displayed in the list of sources or anywhere else in the UI.
I get that the team wants to announce their Italian language book. That's great. But it has no value to a non-Italian speaker and should not be visible anywhere in the UI if our language setting is not set to Italian unless we have purchased this content.
The menu will become functionally unusable if every foreign language version of every book is added to it. Its already crowded with just the English books.
I would like to dispell a few concerns and clarify a few things regarding the mega menu and the Italian Player's Handbook that was added.
First, adding the Italian Player's Handbook is an experiment. This is new territory for us and our desire is to learn as we go. There is a TON of work, literally months of a single team's time, in order to get D&D Beyond fully ready to localize and sell translations. This would be a massive undertaking that we do not want to take lightly. Part of the process is taking small steps and learning as we go. For example, spending weeks to redesign the mega menu to accommodate translations only to find that we should go a different direction means a lot of time wasted.
Second, I really hope that you trust us enough to know that we would NEVER plan to add EVERY book with EVERY translation to the mega menu. There is NO WAY that would work. Set aside the usability concerns. It would just break everything. There is no chance we let this happen. Even as we speak, we're looking at ways to improve the mega menu and make it easier for you to get to your content. We added the Italian Player's Handbook to the mega menu as a stop-gap for now so that Italian players can get to it.
Third, I really appreciate everyone's ideas and opinions here. When something feels wrong, and no one says anything, we don't learn and we can't make it better. I can't promise that you won't get frustrated with us at times, but I can promise that your voices are heard and ALWAYS considered.
Thank you all.
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When your language preference is set to English, then non-English content should not be displayed in the list of sources or anywhere else in the UI.
I get that the team wants to announce their Italian language book. That's great. But it has no value to a non-Italian speaker and should not be visible anywhere in the UI if our language setting is not set to Italian unless we have purchased this content.
The menu will become functionally unusable if every foreign language version of every book is added to it. Its already crowded with just the English books.
Just the Italian PHB is fine, but I was thinking the same thing about the future.
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AlumniI agree, kwatt.
I would like to dispell a few concerns and clarify a few things regarding the mega menu and the Italian Player's Handbook that was added.
First, adding the Italian Player's Handbook is an experiment. This is new territory for us and our desire is to learn as we go. There is a TON of work, literally months of a single team's time, in order to get D&D Beyond fully ready to localize and sell translations. This would be a massive undertaking that we do not want to take lightly. Part of the process is taking small steps and learning as we go. For example, spending weeks to redesign the mega menu to accommodate translations only to find that we should go a different direction means a lot of time wasted.
Second, I really hope that you trust us enough to know that we would NEVER plan to add EVERY book with EVERY translation to the mega menu. There is NO WAY that would work. Set aside the usability concerns. It would just break everything. There is no chance we let this happen. Even as we speak, we're looking at ways to improve the mega menu and make it easier for you to get to your content. We added the Italian Player's Handbook to the mega menu as a stop-gap for now so that Italian players can get to it.
Third, I really appreciate everyone's ideas and opinions here. When something feels wrong, and no one says anything, we don't learn and we can't make it better. I can't promise that you won't get frustrated with us at times, but I can promise that your voices are heard and ALWAYS considered.
Thank you all.