Will international forums be maintained?

The new opening page of the FAQs on New Adobe Forums, where the link posted by Kath points, opens some hope.

I have just taken a quick look at the part in Spanish, and what I saw at first look appears to be a good translation of the subjects in the part in English -not including the messages posted in English, of course. This contrasts with the fixed text in the Spain (Adobe) forums, which includes a few passages in good Spanish, many in bad Spanish, many in Spanglish, and even more that a few directly in English.

I cannot however forget that the Spain (Adobe) forums vanished during the last attempted change, while the Spain (Macromedia) ones remained untouched. That's why, although I very much welcome this international aperture in the Forums, I am only partilly optimist about the future of the Spain (Adobe) forums.

In my opinion, this new international opening page is a huge and unexpected step in the right direction. My congratulations to those responsible for it.

The link posted by Kath seems to indicate that there is actually more information in the international forums.

What Claudio said, with the addition that a very clear reference to the larger English forums, stating that language (level) should not stop anyone, would increase the value of the international forums.

This seems to be new:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b7c39d/

Claudio, what others were saying (not specific to Spanish) is that they are aware of forums not run by Adobe that cover Adobe software in other counties/languages. The group I was visiting with are the Community Experts http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ many of whom spent time in the forums helping out.

Dorothy, the Spain (Adobe) forum is not a competition to any other Adobe forum. Most people who post questions (and get answers) there would be unable to post their questions in any other Adobe forum. Except perhaps for those "at the other side", but those are quite a different animal. Due to the lack of moderation, the ones in Spanish are very similar to the L*****. Plus, the endless quoting used over there makes threads nearly unreadable.

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.

Just as a majority of native English speakers know little or nothing of other languages, a majority of native Spanish speakers do not know any English.

John, I asked something about that in the way, way back forums and got the suggestion that many groups already have forums in various languages that serve the need very adequately. In those cases, would the powers that be at Adobe be willing to list recommended resources rather then ending up in competition with other groups, with the likely result of providing a poorer customer experience, then could be had using external resources?

in the "support" menu there's "forums". don't you guys have a support menu anywhere? check the page header...

Well, that wouldn't help very much if non English speaking users of Adobe products do not know about these forums... They would never even know about the flags.

Maybe we need a standard "pick your flag to get to your localized forum" gimmick at the top level of the forums?