Highly experimental extensions to try out

[rdearman]

1. LanguagePacks. I have used the French pack since the day emk installed it. No problems yet. I would vote for other packs being added, especially, for me, Spanish.

I vote for more language packs too, Spanish, Italian. But my fear is emk is going to tell me to bloody well do it myself!

[emk]

1. LanguagePacks. I have used the French pack since the day emk installed it. No problems yet. I would vote for other packs being added, especially, for me, Spanish.

I vote for more language packs too, Spanish, Italian. But my fear is emk is going to tell me to bloody well do it myself!

I want to bump the number up slowly, in case having too many language packs causes a problem. So, we can do it one of three ways:

1. Some very kind person can make us a list of the most popular languages on the site.
2. I can sort by number of native speakers, and add the top several.
3. We can add a number of new language packs on a first-come, first-serve basis.

We don't want to try to run phpBB with 40 languages right out of the box, just in case that doesn't work!

[basica]

I heard Serbian/Croatian is one of the most popular languages here on HTLAL..

[rdearman]

I heard Serbian/Croatian is one of the most popular languages here on HTLAL..

I think someone spends to much time speaking with Radioclare.

[AlexTG]

If we're going to have an icon rather than a word (like "thanks") I prefer a star or a heart. A thumbs up or a +1 looks too much like agreement to me, I don't necessarily agree with the posts I heart, I find them useful, or they provide a perspective I hadn't considered, or they make me laugh.

[lone wolf]

A +1 only indicates that the counter will get increased. I wouldn't have the impression that I have to agree with the content of a post to +1 it. Anyway, every symbol is fine with me as long as it isn't girlish.

[WalkingAlone13]

I'm starting to think that regardless of the icon used, it's going to be interpreted as too this or that by a member one way or another. I don't remember any hearts on Myspace...though, granted, it has been around 10-13 years since I stopped using it, so I have no idea what has gone on since. One could also say that a star is "girly" as it's probably the most common tattoo for a female to have done. Though, for me, it actually makes me think of Mario. Shame we couldn't have a Yoshi icon. The red one.

[emk]

Language packs are working well so far. I'd like to try adding another handful. But this time around, we have choices:

1. Spanish speakers! Do you think the forum should use Tú, or Usted, or give you the choice? Does anybody object to defaulting to European Spanish?
2. Mandarin speakers! Would you like simplified or traditional or a choice?
3. Does anybody volunteer to test a right-to-left language like Hebrew or Arabic? I'd really like to know if the forum software plays nicely with these languages.

As always, thank you for trying out all this new stuff, and for your feedback. I'm totally unqualified to do make these decisions for all but a tiny, tiny handful of languages.

[zenmonkey]

Language packs are working well so far. I'd like to try adding another handful. But this time around, we have choices:

1. Spanish speakers! Do you think the forum should use Tú, or Usted, or give you the choice? Does anybody object to defaulting to European Spanish?

As always, thank you for trying out all this new stuff, and for your feedback. I'm totally unqualified to do make these decisions for all but a tiny, tiny handful of languages.

The familiar Tú is my preference - it is quite common nowadays to be informally addressed on the web or even in public (eso no me gusto para nada!).

[Stelle]

The familiar tú is my preference! I'm looking forward to switching the forum to Spanish!

re: other languages, I'm pretty sure that there are a metric ton of secret lurkers studying Tagalog, so that would probably be a good strategic choice. You know, to encourage all of those secret lurkers to sign up.