🚀 Feature Request: Use localized member names

[sruenwg]

Describe the solution

This is a request to always show member names at least in the currently selected site language.

Member names currently appear on the site in:

1. fixed, untranslated strings (clip search dialog),
2. channel names (livestream pages and video modal), and
3. auto-translated texts (events page).

This ticket is about 1 and 2.
Here, the member's name / channel name is accompanied by their avatar and hence there is presumably no issue for most fans regardless of whether the name matches the site language, but from an accessibility standpoint I believe this language mismatch is not ideal. (E.g. this design is not friendly to new fans who may have a hard time distinguishing members just from their avatars.)

My suggestion would thus be to either:

1. (preferred) display member names in both the original language (Japanese for JP members, English for EN members) and the current site language (e.g. '花芽すみれ (Sumire Kaga)' and 'Arya Kuroha' on /en and '花芽すみれ' and 'Arya Kuroha (黒刃アリヤ)' on /ja), or
2. display member names only in the current site language (e.g. 花芽すみれ is always 'Sumire Kaga' on /en and '花芽すみれ' on /ja).

[sruenwg]

@sugar-cat7 I'd like to implement this, but do you think you would prefer option 1 (original + localized name) or 2 (just localized name)?

I still prefer 1 personally, but I realized that a lot of names might get truncated (like 橘ひなの's already is) if both languages are included.

Though this might not be too big an issue if we put the localized name first.

Or maybe we can have just the localized name in video cards but both names elsewhere (like in the modal once the user clicks on the card) — up to you.

Please also let me know if you have a preferred format, e.g. {localizedName} ({originalName}), {localizedName} / {originalName}, or something else.

[sugar-cat7]

@sruenwg
Personally, I think option 1 is better!

[sruenwg]

@sugar-cat7

I would like to keep the original channel name displayed as it is.

I see you had this in a previous version of your message — would you rather we kept the channel names as is?
I'm asking because I'd hate to make any changes you disagree with.

[sugar-cat7]

@sruenwg
Thank you for confirming 🙏

In conclusion, I think option 1 is fine as proposed! (Even if the original channel name already includes a translated channel name)

Currently, my thinking is that if we need to normalize an original channel name like "橘ひなの / Hinano Tachibana" to "橘ひなの", it would be better to handle it in the backend (since we are deploying to multi-channels such as Discord Bot, etc.). Therefore, from the frontend perspective, we can go with the format proposed in option 1: {original Name} ({translated Name} according to the language).

[sruenwg]

Ah good point, seems the scope of this is bigger than I anticipated.

I am not generally a fan of formatting strings on the backend, but that does seem like a good approach if we want to be consistent across the different services (web app and Discord bot).
I'm definitely not opposed to the idea since it seems we already do something similar with Livestream.formattedDateString.

In that case, I think I will leave this ticket for you when you have time to make those backend changes.

[sugar-cat7]

I apologize for the long wait on the backend...🫠

[sruenwg]

No need to apologize! I don't mean to rush you so I'm sorry if I made you feel that way.