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The message temp-user-banner-description is used as lego
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The message temp-user-banner-description is used as "lego": it is concatenated in run time with colon-separator and the account name.

It would be much better to put the account name into the message as a parameter, and to let the translators choose the punctuation. Currently, translating this is quite inconvenient to some languages.

In fact, it's not so great even in English: "You are using a temporary account: ~2025-41753".

It would make more sense to me without the colon and with "the" instead of "a", like this: "You are using the temporary account ~2025-41753".

There are a few similar messages in other contexts, and they should all be consistent.

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Jdrewniak triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 8 2025, 1:47 PM
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I think the language around temp accounts has changed since this ticket was written (not sure when) but I don't see language like "You are using a temporary account: ~2025-41753" in the UI any more. Feel free to reopen if I'm mistaken.

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