Still no supervision in the French and Spanish forums?

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August 6, 2005
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I forgot that threads are extremely short lived in this forum, and the discussion that really began within an unrelated thread, here

Pierre Courtejoie, "Shouldn't these links be removed as soon as possible?" #8, 27 Feb 2005 1:21 pm

has already gone to the Archives, where it is in danger of going to the limbus in the near future.

I still think that this is an important issue, and still wait to see any improvement in those forums showing that the messages by Pierre and myself on the subject have not fallen in a void. Although we both value and thank Neil Keller for his attempts to get some reaction in higher quarters, his attempts have unfortunately been a failure.

It is pathetic to see pages in the forums in Spanish with templates that are written in a mixture of English and a very bad Spanish. It is even more pathetic that JC stopped more than a year ago feeling authorized to introduce any non trivial change to improve this situation. The worst part is however to feel that there is no one listening, or at least willing to admit that there might be problems in those forums.

I feel very disappointed.

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PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Thanks, indeed, Jacob, I was on holidays in the US, so I did not monitor this thread...

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

I agree with Don, too. 30 days, or earlier if it gets a bit too close to the abyss.

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

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Thanks, Don, my intentions are not leaving it die or go down the drain. Fortunately, in case I forget, Jacob has been coming to the rescue after 30 days of inactivity, for which I am grateful.

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D__McCahill

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Doesn't hurt to keep the thread alive though, Claudio. Someone looking into it will see a thread with 180+ responses, and think ... hey, we better do something. If the thread dies, you will have a much smaller one when the time comes to press the issue.

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

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True. However, I have my doubts that this matter is going to receive any attention until the Adobe/Macromedia forums fusion gets to its latest stages. A simple fusion of the current forums in Spanish would introduce much and larger complications and confusions than there are now in either.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Timeout.

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

Legend

You are right, Jacob. But in the adobe.com forums they have chosen to let you choose the language for the fixed text, and there seem to be special folders for localized subjects, where people write messages in their own language. Not in the least as convenient or friendly. Not to mention that you have to keep on login in for everything, which takes quite some time.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

>The current trend in forum software appears to be letting the user select the language they want for the interface.

As I have understood it, the advantage of having a Spanish forum is that the posts are in Spanish, thus creating a community genuinely involving those that speak Spanish but not (very much) English; the same for French.