Spanish presubs are awful 🤦‍♂️

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@henrri_11

Making sure that the Spanish presubs are at least coherent until volunteers can edit and enhance them would greatly improve the viewing experience. If Viki continues to rely on machine translations as they are now, it will not only slow down the editing process but also damage the reputation of the high-quality subtitles created by volunteers.

Thank you so much for bringing up this issue here, Henrri!
This situation reminds me the “nightmare” we faced a few years ago when they tried to implement the VikiBot. It caused so much damage to the volunteers and to the reputation of the site.

I fully understand Viki needs to keep being competitive with other platforms, but they have to keep in mind that their strongest advantage is the high-quality of the subtitles created by us. Viewers choose to watch dramas here because they KNOW the translation is more accurate and smooth than any other platforms.

@vikicommunity, if you remove willfully this key element that makes people choose your website instead of another, little by little, Viki won’t have anything more attractive than others. This is the mistake that will make you lose subscribers AND your passionate community.
Plus, the more presubs languages there will be, the slower the segmenter process will be. It’s only adding more and more work to everyone here.

For the record, if anyone is interested in what happened in 2019 with VIKI BOT: Machine translation from Viki
The reply from Viki Staff regarding the issue back then: [Viki Community Team] French Machine Translations

So, you are well aware machine translation is not the way to please viewers!