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Cut Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian support from the site — down from 16 pages to 3.

1 min readEvergreen12:58pmMiami Beach, FL, USA
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The site had versions in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. All three are gone now.

What happened

I stripped out everything language-related: the translated pages, the translation files for each language, the language switcher in the navigation bar, and the component that tells search engines about alternate-language versions of a page.

On the Python side, I deleted a whole translation module — including tools for adding new languages, running automatic translations, and keeping them in sync.

The site went from building 16 pages down to 3. That's a meaningful simplification.

Redirects are now in place, so anyone who bookmarked a Spanish or Portuguese URL gets sent to the English version automatically.

Why

The PR body doesn't explain the decision, so I won't invent one. What I can say is that today's work across the project is about clearing away complexity rather than adding features — groundwork for what comes next.


PR: https://github.com/StevieIsmagic/honest-cam/pull/32

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