Why should this tool be removed? (Not sure if this should go into Tool Suggestions or just Site Development, feel free to let me know) I find LanguageTool’s marketing and presentation to be really similar to Canary Mail’s, and I would like LanguageTool to be removed just as much. Paraphrasing feat…

I’m surprised nobody commented on this. I have been using LT for years, before it was even recommended by some people in the privacy community. Even if you take AI out of the equation, I have always been disturbed by the fact that spellchecking apps, especially those that require an account, can rea…

Another cause for concern imo is that Language Tool was acquired by US company Learneo. December 2024 LanguageTool Service Terms and Privacy Policy Update: What You... In December 2024 we made some important updates regarding our service terms, privacy policy and how your personal data…

Yeah I’m not sure we necessarily need a slightly better version of grammarly. We shouldn’t be asking people to send all their text to some service. Now especially you have local AI models that can be used for grammar checking also which I don’t think was really the case when it was added. Most progr…

@PoorPocketsMcNewHold I noticed you have previously worked with LanguageTool, so I would be interested to know your thoughts on this

Don’t know about the status post-AI and post Learneo. I worked during the summer period of 2019, to improve the French correction of the tool, as a rule editor. I do point out again, that despite my job, where in the ideal situation, we will get context or full sent strings potentially from users,…

Language tool offer a local only version of the tool, no internet needed. Perhaps that was the original recommendation in the website ? Its very hard to find thought. You need to browse to a index of blank page, offering the download of the classic java version. The graphical user interface is bad…

Drafted this change on GitHub: update!: Add LTeX for VS Code and remove LanguageTool main ← ltex-vscode opened 03:39AM - 07 May 25 UTC (UTC) [image] …

@jonah , Depending what we do (remove, adapt), there might be value to show how to configure the language tool browser extension to use the local http server/API. If your plan is to bundle self-hosted version in vscode, that would kind of not work and its not a good approach.

The point is that the VS Code extension bundles the local version for you automatically, and I don’t think the browser extension does. If we find other extensions for other editors or browsers that work the same way LTeX for VSCode does we can list them alongside this one though. I’ll check the bro…

Hmmm. I still think Language Tool is an improvement over Grammarly. But I see the points about it maybe not being the most trustworthy. I would personally vote for it to stay. I also think inviting folks to install a VS Code extension feels odd. Most of our recommendations aren’t targeted at devel…

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Another cause for concern imo is that Language Tool was acquired by US company Learneo.

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