Maybe because your community only allowed Mandarin? There can also be a community-wide scope that only allow certain languages, so if the community you post in mandarin-speaking only, that’s why you might not have needed to select anything.

You’re very welcome!

Yes, it’s exactly that, I explained it in another reply

I also agree it should behave like that by default but I’m not really familiar with Lemmy’s front-end codebase to be able to do this myself, so I do what I can!

If you regularly post in multiple languages, you have to select them all in your user settings.

However, having multiple languages selected will always display the same language list in the same order, even if you don’t post in that language.

For example, I post mostly in french but sometimes in english as well. Well, the lemmy front-end always puts english at the start of the list so every time I post in french, I need to re-select it which is kind of annoying. This add-on does it for you!

The best thing I can think of is to contribute to the Lemmy front-end itself, but since I’m not familiar with the framework they use, and how the project is structured, I don’t think I’ll be able to do it for the forseeqble future. Feel free to open an issue about this on their GitHub however!

Well, it seems like it’s going to be a little more tricky. There’s no ID to detect the post sorting selection menu. For the language select, I could look for elements containing the ID language-select but it does not seem to be possible for post sorting.

The best thing I could think of is to add ?sort=Old, ?sort=New to the URL but it does not seem to affect the sorting unless the button is actually clicked or the page fully reloads.

If I could consistently select the elements that allow for filtering (and be careful that it doesn’t conflict with other types of filtering on other pages), I could do it, but right now I don’t see a solution.

I could make another add-on for that, if you are interested

Update! Now should work with any language select in Lemmy, not just post creation!

Add-on even lighter than before! Let’s save those bytes~

Wait a few hours for Mozilla to approve it then update to v1.1, or get it now from GitHub releases!

Thank you for your feedback, I’ve switched to the GPL V3 license