Your point is valid and I wouldn't complain about those cases and I don't think someone else will. It's understood that different regions have different products. That would be an impossible feat.
I'm talking mostly about online services and some blogs. The website that sparked this post specifically was this: matterport.com. It opened in english, I was already reading it and then there was a refresh and everything turned to german. Apart from the bad UX of waiting for a reload (*1), there's no content change. It's the same website, the same content. OK, you have different phone numbers for contact but that can be on its own page.
But there are worst offenders. For example, GOG.com, a video games online store/service that I really like, changes the language and then saves it to the browser. I opened it in France, and although I've have for years browsed in the English version, it's now in French, I have to manually change it. It makes no sense, when they can fetch the browser's language.
Google does the same. Google is 100% the same (apart from a few country-specific services, but that's not what this is about). I understand if your search results are relative to where I am, but the interface should be in my language of choice (smartly fetched from my browser/machine preferences). And they can fetch my region to hide the products that they don't offer in my region, in this case, where 98% of it is available globally.
*1: I've built websites where a language reload was important. The first thing we did was load that specific JS that checked the browser's language and then reloaded, which was super fast and there was no repaint
"And they can fetch my region to hide the products that they don't offer in my region, in this case, where 98% of it is available globally." - what about products that are available in your region, but not in others? should whole site be in english and some products in ducth(because they're available only Netherlands and translating in every other world doesn't make sense?)
but I learnt to live with google chrome and translation of the site.
the bigger problem I have, to be honest is when a platform like PlayStation, offer their store only in local language(like your bank account) and to make it worse, you can't change your country after registration. I had account in Netherlands and now I have either option to continue using dutch version(even I'm not living there anymore) or to lose all my previous purchases and start from scratch :D
what about products that are available in your region, but not in others? should whole site be in english and some products in ducth(because they're available only Netherlands and translating in every other world doesn't make sense?)
Yes, exactly. The page and info for that product can be on the language that it's available in (in this case, decided by region). But the overall UI and navigation should maintain your language, so you can still navigate and get out of there.
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Your point is valid and I wouldn't complain about those cases and I don't think someone else will. It's understood that different regions have different products. That would be an impossible feat.
I'm talking mostly about online services and some blogs. The website that sparked this post specifically was this: matterport.com. It opened in english, I was already reading it and then there was a refresh and everything turned to german. Apart from the bad UX of waiting for a reload (*1), there's no content change. It's the same website, the same content. OK, you have different phone numbers for contact but that can be on its own page.
But there are worst offenders. For example, GOG.com, a video games online store/service that I really like, changes the language and then saves it to the browser. I opened it in France, and although I've have for years browsed in the English version, it's now in French, I have to manually change it. It makes no sense, when they can fetch the browser's language.
Google does the same. Google is 100% the same (apart from a few country-specific services, but that's not what this is about). I understand if your search results are relative to where I am, but the interface should be in my language of choice (smartly fetched from my browser/machine preferences). And they can fetch my region to hide the products that they don't offer in my region, in this case, where 98% of it is available globally.
*1: I've built websites where a language reload was important. The first thing we did was load that specific JS that checked the browser's language and then reloaded, which was super fast and there was no repaint
ok, fair enough.
"And they can fetch my region to hide the products that they don't offer in my region, in this case, where 98% of it is available globally." - what about products that are available in your region, but not in others? should whole site be in english and some products in ducth(because they're available only Netherlands and translating in every other world doesn't make sense?)
but I learnt to live with google chrome and translation of the site.
the bigger problem I have, to be honest is when a platform like PlayStation, offer their store only in local language(like your bank account) and to make it worse, you can't change your country after registration. I had account in Netherlands and now I have either option to continue using dutch version(even I'm not living there anymore) or to lose all my previous purchases and start from scratch :D
Yes, exactly. The page and info for that product can be on the language that it's available in (in this case, decided by region). But the overall UI and navigation should maintain your language, so you can still navigate and get out of there.