This would certainly be a useful feature. Unfortunately, Apple does not make their translation API available for us to use, so we'd have to use someone else's API instead. I haven't looked too deeply into potential options just yet, but have created an issue here to keep track of the suggestion 👍
If you allow selecting text in posts, then users can translate from the context menu (along with other benefits such as being able to quote parts of a post more easily). If this is already possible, I haven’t found a way to do it. That would be my preferred way to do it instead of a third party thing.
Yep, that's another way it could be done. We're hoping to add a text-selecting popup in the next major update, which will make this possible. However, it's not quite as seamless as having a dedicated "Translate" button that replaces the post/comment content inline, which I'd prefer to use if implementing it proves to be feasible.
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