[haiku-web] Re: Avatars and international forums
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Web Haiku ML" <haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:09:43 +0200
Hello!
I'll just repost that thing every 6 months, OK? :)
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:07:40 +0200 I wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Two things that come up from time to time, most recently for me on
> IRC:
>
> How about having the option of an avatar image for forum/blog posts?
> I
> think it's a nice way to make posts better recognizable and the whole
> thing more personal. I'd opt for one fixed size, like 96x96, to have
> it
> all nice and tidy.
>
> Second, international forums. This came up in the past from time to
> time. If I remember correctly, we thought we'd have a completely
> localized website someday and thus would take care of the issue in
> one
> fell sweep.
> I'm sure that'll come real soon now... :)
> Anyway, until then, I'd like to propose to go with international
> forums
> as sub-forums in our current website. Those can later on be migrated
> into their localized sub-websites, I imagine.
>
> I'd suggest to go with German, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian,
> Spanish and one "Others" first. If there's much traffic of one
> language
> in "Others" we can offer to open its own board.
> Equally, if there's no traffic in those default languages, move the
> threads to the "Other" board and close it down.
>
> Alternatively, have only one "International forum" and have mandatory
> national flags to indicate the language of a topic. (And maybe
> introduce sub-forums for high-traffic languages later.)
> Personally, I like this alternative even better, but I don't know if
> our forum software allows that easily.
>
> Regards,
> Humdinger
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