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Added something very experimental: automatic comment translation.

To turn it on, set your language in settings. Only a few languages are supported, since we translate all comments to each of those languages and I don't want to spam Google with dozens of translate requests per comment; for now I picked the most common languages on the site.

If you want certain languages to be untranslated, select them in the Secondary Languages box. For example, if your native language is Spanish and you understand English, you can set it to show all messages in Spanish, but to leave English ones alone.

Quotes are translated separately: if a message is in English with quotes in Chinese, and you've configured it to not translate Chinese, it'll translate the English and not the Chinese.

This is only currently implemented for comments, not forum posts, and it'll only work for new comments since we havn't generated translations for all the old ones.

Obviously, this is only as useful as the translations--and the most common language here besides English is Chinese, which happens to be a language that machine translation is still really bad at. Still, it's easier to read than Chinese if you can't read Chinese...

It's not turned on by default for now. This may change later on if it actually seems useful and after more testing.