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Why is the subscribe button in a completely different location for RTL vs LTR?
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From the Arabic Beta Cluster, with the UI language set to English vs Arabic:

Screen Shot 2022-06-29 at 11.30.08 AM.png (252×1 px, 40 KB)

Screen Shot 2022-06-29 at 11.30.24 AM.png (298×1 px, 37 KB)

I think it's unlikely that all the buttons are meant to be cheek-by-jowl in one language, but when you switch languages, one of the buttons goes flying all the way across the page. Presumably the locations should be comparable.

Event Timeline

Change 809728 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Use interface language direction for topic metadata wrapper

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/809728

matmarex subscribed.

(There's some more interesting discussion about different approaches to this at T305286.)

Change 809728 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Use interface language direction for topic metadata wrapper

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/809728