From 9872d1f4224f5def0bdeef284a8ec67caab83f88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MaterArc <105017592+MaterArc@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 12:59:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Compare languages

Improve the feature to compare users by language instead of just the country, so users from different countries that share the same language (eg: US, UK, Australia) are included correctly.
---
 features/localized-explore/script.js | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/features/localized-explore/script.js b/features/localized-explore/script.js
index 90091f65..417794e6 100644
--- a/features/localized-explore/script.js
+++ b/features/localized-explore/script.js
@@ -9,9 +9,27 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
     ).json()
   ).profile.country;
 
-  ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectCountry);
+  async function getLanguage(country) {
+    try {
+      const res = await fetch(
+        `https://restcountries.com/v3.1/name/${encodeURIComponent(country)}?fullText=true`
+      );
+      if (!res.ok) return null;
+      const data = await res.json();
+      if (data && data[0] && data[0].languages) {
+        return Object.values(data[0].languages)[0];
+      }
+      return null;
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
 
-  async function detectCountry(element) {
+  const myLanguage = await getLanguage(myCountry);
+
+  ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectLanguage);
+
+  async function detectLanguage(element) {
     let author = element.querySelector(".thumbnail-creator a");
 
     let data = await (
@@ -23,7 +41,9 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
       )
     ).json();
 
-    if (data.profile.country !== myCountry) {
+    const authorLanguage = await getLanguage(data.profile.country);
+
+    if (authorLanguage !== myLanguage) {
       element.classList.add("ste-outside-country");
       if (feature.settings.get("hide-completely")) {
         element.classList.add("ste-country-hide");
@@ -35,7 +55,6 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
 
   feature.settings.addEventListener("changed", function ({ key, value }) {
     if (key === "hide-completely") {
-      console.log(value);
       if (value) {
         document
           .querySelectorAll(".ste-outside-country")
@@ -51,6 +70,6 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
   });
 
   feature.addEventListener("enabled", function() {
-    ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectCountry);
+    ScratchTools.waitForElements("div.thumbnail.project", detectLanguage);
   })
 }

From b93c5e7721120222fc743e42711edd09cb7f725a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rgantzos <86856959+rgantzos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 10:07:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Use ScratchTools API instead

---
 features/localized-explore/script.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/features/localized-explore/script.js b/features/localized-explore/script.js
index 417794e6..439f35a0 100644
--- a/features/localized-explore/script.js
+++ b/features/localized-explore/script.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export default async function ({ feature, console }) {
   async function getLanguage(country) {
     try {
       const res = await fetch(
-        `https://restcountries.com/v3.1/name/${encodeURIComponent(country)}?fullText=true`
+        `https://data.scratchtools.app/language/${encodeURIComponent(country)}?fullText=true`
       );
       if (!res.ok) return null;
       const data = await res.json();

From caadf787a761e4c2302479b54e0de8435fc0f6da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rgantzos <86856959+rgantzos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 10:08:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update data.json with credits and description

---
 features/localized-explore/data.json | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/features/localized-explore/data.json b/features/localized-explore/data.json
index 2ed32d0c..4f74e433 100644
--- a/features/localized-explore/data.json
+++ b/features/localized-explore/data.json
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {
   "title": "Projects from Country",
-  "description": "On the explore page, makes projects from other countries less visible. This is to only show projects in languages that you understand.",
+  "description": "On the explore page, makes projects from countries that speak other languages less visible.",
   "credits": [
+    { "username": "MaterArc", "url": "https://scratch.mit.edu/users/MaterArc/" },
     { "username": "KitsunLilly", "url": "https://scratch.mit.edu/users/KitsunLilly/" },
     { "username": "rgantzos", "url": "https://scratch.mit.edu/users/rgantzos/" }
   ],