[All Platforms][Other] Please make genderstar in german language optional

[tomjoe-ler]

Hello Team,

as i wrote in the subject, i would like to request you to create a second kind of german language setting, one "traditional german" option and one "gender sensitve" option for those who like this more than the traditional german.

For me i have to say that the gender sensitive variant of the german language is really hard to read and gives with every star within the words an opstacle.

Thanks in advance and best regards

Thomas

[Slytzel]

I think in a case were only a smaller amount of people can potentially participate, since this is only interesting to German users, the number of votes that needs to be reached should be smaller. Some might not be able to find this, since they cannot navigate a forum in english or do not expect to find a german related poll here.

I think taking away the * is going to beneficial to Spotify, since all recent polls show a big,  growing opposition against it in the public, besides for a loud minority. Also new studies show that people who are disabled in certain ways, or are for other reasons not able to read as good, have major issues with this kind of writing.

Besides that, the official international counsel for the German language (Deutscher Rechtschreibrat) did reject this idea as well for reasons rooted in linguistics.

I therefore plead to Spotify to reinstate the correct writing. Thank you for listening to our concerns!

[Slytzel]

@everyone support the new poll! https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/All-Platforms-Social-German-language-without-in/id...

Bitte neue Petition unterschreiben!

[Whateverisneeded]

Agree 100%. How can I vote for this?

[LiNCHx]

I completely agree. It becomes really difficult to read parts of the user interface because there is a "*" in every word.

[Fuxband]

Spotify won't change anything! It's their political path and they won't change it only because of this poll. No matter how many votes it will get. The only vote which might make them start to think about it somewhere in the far future with many many users doing it like that, is to cancel your Spotify Premium account. That's what i've done already. I went to a streaming service which is able to communicate in correct German and instead of Spotfiy i now pay them.

[Ver]

Updated on 2022-02-11

Hello,

Thank you for submitting your suggestion in our Ideas section.

Currently there are no plans for changing the German version of the app. As such, we're closing this idea.

Should this change in the future, we'll make sure to post an update.

[user-removed]

This is absolutely horrible. I just wrote a long post and it was deleted, because of some spotify issue.

Well. Anyways. I was a long time subscriber since 2010 or so and I quit my subscription when Gendersterne became a thing in Spotify. I only will subscribe again, when those are removed and everything has been reverted to normal.

This is a disservice, not a service. Why won't Spotify service me? Well. They don't want my money I guess.

All these weird changes that have nothing to do with music.

Do one thing and do it right.

If you want to make something actual good for gender equality, then maybe pay the same wages for everyone and also commit to being transparent with wages and push this to states, so everyone benefits from it. But such changes are just empty changes for a small annying minority that isn't even affected by such things. Don't be that guy. Or even better: just don't get involved with politics to begin with.

Cheers.

[boennhoff]

I am also very uncomfortable with the gender-sensitive german, it feels wrong and pushy to me!

To me the closing of all the ideas about this topic sums up to: Spotify selectively ignores minorities!

What is the difference between the minority of non-binary persons and the seeming minority of people that dislike a non-standardized german translation of the spotify UI?

Why discriminating another "minority" if the solution is so simple:

1. Provide a second "Traditional German" translation (use the old translation as source, git anyone?)
2. Provide a possibility to change the spotify language on mobile devices (yeeah, NEW FEATURE!)

Both tasks should be easily doable for a single developer knowing the codebase in less than 8h!

How easy to make all customers happy, without dismissing your political agenda...

PS: As a last resort just implement option 2, so we are able to switch to the english translation on our mobile devices at least...

[m1b]

Dear Spotify,

please revert to common German or finally make the useage of the Gernder*German dialect optional. I'm still not willing to use "Gernder" based German dialects, so Spotify is forcing me as a German to use English in the language options instead. I personally think, it's a disgrace for companies to use language as a medium for marketing purposes. So please act!

[nominealex]

Hallo, wann erhalten wir endlich die Option, diese Form der Sprache zu deaktivieren? @SpotifySupport