1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/group-settings.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/group-settings.js
index 4ae832f..22532fa 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/group-settings.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/group-settings.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {
-  html, useState, useEffect, useCallback, useMemo,
+  html, useState, useEffect, useCallback, useMemo, useRef,
 } from './vendor/htm-preact.js';
 import { t, getLocale, LOCALES } from './i18n.js';
 import { Icon } from './icon.js';
@@ -311,6 +311,24 @@ function GroupSettingsPanel({ groupId, group, token, transportRef, gekRef,
     }
   }, [transportRef, onTmdbConfig, tmdbTokenDraft, tmdbConfig, tmdbLanguage]);
 
+  // A node that has never had a language explicitly set would otherwise
+  // query TMDB with none at all — which TMDB itself resolves to English,
+  // regardless of who the operator is — even though this form already
+  // *suggests* their own UI language as the value. Applied once,
+  // automatically, the first time the operator (the only one who can sign
+  // this) is actually connected to see it: a real default tied to whoever
+  // runs this particular node, never a single hardcoded language for every
+  // node. `tmdbConfig.language` being set at all — from this or from an
+  // explicit save — is what stops it from ever firing again, so "unless
+  // manually changed" holds regardless of which of the two set it first.
+  const autoLanguageSetRef = useRef(false);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!isNodeAdmin || !connected || !tmdbConfig || tmdbConfig.language) return;
+    if (autoLanguageSetRef.current) return;
+    autoLanguageSetRef.current = true;
+    saveTmdbConfig(tmdbEnabled);
+  }, [isNodeAdmin, connected, tmdbConfig, tmdbEnabled, saveTmdbConfig]);
+
   // Every folder anywhere in the group's shared index, deepest included —
   // `entries[].path` is each file's containing directory (files-app.js's own
   // convention), so every ancestor prefix of it is a real folder, and