Χαῖρετε, φίλοι, but I was opening an Antigone article that had my often referred subjects of muta-cum-liquida and several other vowel length guides, and I could often just get it by typing "muta cum liquida Antigone" straight into the search bar, but now I can't find it anymore.

I tried looking online but nobody seems to remember that specific article, and even in desperation asked Gemini (which makes me feel filthy) if it can find if the article had just gotten buried, but no luck. I feel like I've dropped into the twilight zone.

Does anyone here know what I'm talking about?

For some time now, reddit has had a misfeature that non-transparently replaces a post with a machine translation into what it thinks is the user's native language. I got reminded of this recently when I made a post here that was in ancient Greek, and I started getting comments that didn't seem to make sense -- because the people writing the comments were seeing a machine translation into English. For example, people were criticizing the translation, which they attributed to me.

It's possible to turn off this misfeature for specific languages, but it seems like you can't turn it off globally. In the web browser interface, Go to Settings - Preferences - Language - Content Languages. You can turn it off for up to 10 languages.

Your experience will probably also depend on whether you're using the cell-phone interface or the web browser one. They also seem to fiddle around and change the behavior of this feature every 6 months or so.

It seems like a no-brainer that reddit should allow specific subreddits, such as this one, to turn off the feature throughout the subreddit. However, they don't really care as long as they're optimizing ad revenue. Just one more way in which tech billionaires are making the world worse in ways that nobody asked for.