Introducing the Donghua Mate blog
Release notes, feature write-ups and guides for Donghua Mate will be published on this blog. This first post sums up what the extension does today.
What you'll find here
- Release notes: newly opened translation languages, newly registered shows, important fixes.
- Feature write-ups: how existing features work and why, for example how the glossary stays spoiler-free.
- Guides: detailed notes when installation, activation or the points rules change.
What the extension does today
Donghua Mate is a Chrome extension that translates the subtitles of donghua on YouTube into your language:
- Subtitle translation: works on any video with a Chinese or English subtitle track. Click "Translate this video" in the player, or turn on Translate automatically in the menu to skip the click.
- Consistent names: each registered show has a glossary per language, so the same character or cultivation stage gets the same name in every episode.
- No spoilers: translation and the glossary only use names and facts revealed up to the episode you are watching.
- Character cards and lore: the side panel next to the video holds character cards, and names, cultivation stages and world terms in the subtitles can be clicked to open them — again only up to your progress.
- Progress sync: once signed in, the extension records which episode you reached, and the site marks where you left off.
Tutorials
Each tutorial covers one thing, with a short video:
- Translate your first video
- Report a subtitle problem
- Catch up with "Previously"
- Choose your subtitle language, size and bilingual mode
- Look up a cultivation realm from the subtitles
- Who is that? The side panel and character cards
- Open a character's card from the subtitles
- Cover the burned-in Chinese subtitles
- Danmaku, comments that fly across the video
- Hide the subtitles with a shortcut
Still in private test
The extension is in private test and not in the Chrome Web Store yet. Testers receive the package and an invite code, which opens Plus. Translation costs points based on video length; points return on the 1st of each month (UTC).
To join the private test, email [email protected] for an invite code.