I recently shipped a couple of small updates to a content-heavy, multilingual site I run.
One was a homepage language filter based on writing systems rather than translation. Posts are grouped by script (Latin, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc.), so users can filter mixed language feeds without layout shifts or pagination issues.
The other was a lightweight onboarding tour. It runs once on first visit, is fully customizable, supports multiple languages, and avoids heavy external libraries. The goal was to answer “what is this site?” without adding friction.
Both came from the same realization: clarity matters more than features, especially on the first screen.
Sharing in case it’s useful to others working on multilingual or content dense products.
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The other was a lightweight onboarding tour. It runs once on first visit, is fully customizable, supports multiple languages, and avoids heavy external libraries. The goal was to answer “what is this site?” without adding friction.
Both came from the same realization: clarity matters more than features, especially on the first screen.
Sharing in case it’s useful to others working on multilingual or content dense products.