Good morning, English isn’t my first language and it happens quie often that I need to select a good chunk of text to translate it with DeepL, why, in often cases, is impossible but select the title of an article that Lemmy’s bot has summarised? I would appreciate, and I am pretty confident I am not the only one, if the operation would be much handier or possible. Thanks for reading this and for any tip or hint.

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    1 year ago

    Which UI you are using? Web or app?

    I use voyager app and it has a feature “copy text”. When used, the title and body are selectable.

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    I am using Voyager, which compared to the previous client I was using is remarkable, beside this and other features that don’t work in an intuitive way or maybe don’t work at all.

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      Which phone/os are you using? I am using a Google Pixel phone and I can swipe up and see the option to select any text.

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    I use Voyager, but there’s not any option to select text but cumbersome(see below). I just can’t heavy-tap, select and copy. And even when I do that operation of tapping high on the left hand side of the screen and little menu appears, I tap on select text, and sometimes I can select only the title of the article, not the text.

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    Idk what client you’re using but I’m using eternity on android. It let’s you select all the text from any post/comment.

    Many others commented that their clients allow it as well. Maybe consider trying some new ones out?

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      I looked it up out of curiosity, it’s Apple only. First result on Google was for the Apple store.

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    🤦‍♂️ Ok, I expected to create this mini chaos. I am not particulary acute, but I normally tend to figure out, while using a client, how to select and copy the a portion of text. In this case, before posting, I’ve tried some of the most obvious and intuitive solutions without any results, the only ones I’ve obtained where cumbersome and unsatisfaying.
    I did not know existed so many app/clients for Lemmy. I’ve just tried 2 and this one, Voyager, is, I repeat, graphically very rich and beautiful, if compared with the previous and, also with Reddit is fun (the reddit client I used until it was shut down following that rascal Reddit did to the creator of RIF). I want to support Voyager because is by far the most beautiful app I’ve used among those said clients.
    I’m sure there must be a most practical and elegant to selct and copy the text, I’ll find out and I’ll let you know, thanks for all your answer and the desire to help!

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    Sorry, which app is it? I use Voyager, that is graphically impeccable but a bit abstruse.

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      You’re not replying directly to people either. You’re only replying to the post. Maybe you can select text in Voyager too, but you don’t know how.