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Claudio González
Claudio González
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February 17, 2009
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Will international forums be maintained?

  • February 17, 2009
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During the last fiasco, the French and Spanish ex-Adobe forums simply vanished, only to reappear after things were restored to their previous state. If anyone trusts my memory, I would say that the ex-MM forums remained untouched in that period.

Is anyone visiting these forums in a position to say if there is any intention of keeping all/some/none of the international forums? I am aware that there would be technichal problems such as combining both sets of forums for each language, but they should be no more difficult to solve than in the "normal" forums.

I also know that the number of participants in the Spain (Adobe) forum is small, but the forum is a great service for all of those who don't know any English. I imagine the situation is very similar at least for the France (Adobe) forum. It would be a pity to loose them.

Finally, if they are going to be kept, this would be a good time to translate properly all of their fixed text.
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    John_Cornicello_Photo
    John_Cornicello_Photo
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2009
    There never was a Spanish forum. The forums started out in English.

    Someone in Adobe Germany created the German Forums on his own and then provided the German templates to me to install. So then we had English and German. That was in summer 2001. The guy who did them then left.

    The Latin America forum was set up specifically because an Adobe office in Costa Rica was closing, and that was in 2003. Within a few days it was asked if it could be repurposed to cover all Spanish language contributors. Claudio, I could have sworn you were one of the people leading that suggestion.

    French Forums were added in 2004, but I don't remember the events that led up to that one.

    John
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    Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    a pox on the french! :)
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2009
    Claudio,

    The revolt from both Spanish and Latin American users was prompted by the absurd coexistence of one Spanish and one Latin American forum. The users in Spain were as incensed as the ones in Latin America.

    (Incidentally, I hate the French-initiated term "Latin America". French Canadians and Italian Americans are as Latin Americans as Argentinians or Peruvians.)
    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    February 19, 2009
    John T, I did undestand, and I was only saying that when I discovered the forum, it was no longer a Latin America one. What I didn't say is that, whatever its initial name, it can't have been the result of an initiative of plain users alone, or it would never have been housed here.

    So that we have an Adobe forum, housed in an Adobe site, initially named "Latin America", and now called "Spain" since at least 2004 although without intervention of Adobe Spain. I know that bureaucracies are slow to react, but one would suppose that Adobe Spain should have come to know about the existence of this forum by now...

    By the way, in the last line of my previous message I wrote "list" instead of "least". Sorry.
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 19, 2009
    Claudio shows that he knows, John.
    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 19, 2009
    >always been the Forums in Spanish

    Claudio, JohnC did not say the language changed... just the forum name

    "users here on the forum that requested the name change to Spanish from Latin America"
    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    February 19, 2009
    >Adobe Spain never had anything to do with it. It was users here on the forum that requested the name change to Spanish from Latin America.

    Well, you have been around here much longer than I. They have always been the Forums in Spanish for me.

    The fact that Adobe Spain never had anything to do with it doesn't change the facts that, by whatever means, they are forums in Spanish about Adobe products and housed in adobeforums.com; and that they do serve a useful if somewhat modest service. If, for whatever reasons, Adobe Spain do not want to take advantage of this oportunity to help Spanish speaking users, they could at the very list promote the forum in their site.

    Just my opinion.
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    Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    > Dave, in my humble opinion, the "support" (soporte) menu in the Adobe Spain site is unfriendly and not at all helpful: it conducts you mainly to pages in English.

    I understand. i was just wondering if the other language versions of the pages list the forums? i was saying that's how i found them on the english version. not from anyone advertising it.
    John_Cornicello_Photo
    John_Cornicello_Photo
    Inspiring
    February 18, 2009
    Actually, both the Adobe and Macromedia Spain forums disappeared in the last go-around. And they both came back.

    The current Adobe Spanish forum was set up as a Latin American forum. Adobe Spain never had anything to do with it. It was users here on the forum that requested the name change to Spanish from Latin America.
    PECourtejoie
    Community Expert
    PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 18, 2009
    Yes, the international forums suffer from small participation, there might be a need for experts. I know some french forums for Lightroom, but not for every software. And why favour one place instead of another? There are some experts appointed to the community help, they might be invited to share their knowledge on the forums...
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