Why the need of non-english discussions?
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[quote author="Andre" date="1293007779"] The number of users speaking Spanish, Portugese or Chinese also probably should not be underestimated. [/quote]
I don't want to underestimate Spanish, Portugese or Chinese but I think that those discussions are very useless for the community other than Spanish, Portugese or Chinese .
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I am the founder the Hungarian group and we use the Hungarian forum to discuss strictly Hungarian community related issues (eg. translation, looking for Hungarian speaking developers, etc.). I beleive the main aim of the groups to somehow help the local communities and integrate them to the global Qt community.
I beleive your issue is mainly about filtering the discussion, and we already have a thread discussing this issue and I think we already have a suggestion registered in bugtracker to support this feature.
[EDIT] Moreover this way we can help those developers who has relatively poor English to find an interface to the community and to get support for their work.
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Hi Luca,
I think that non-english subforums are needed. For example you can post there some information about local events or language specific problems (like problems with text coding). For more general issues it's obvious that such topics should be posted in other (English) subforums.You may be interested in reading "topic":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/2453 about hiding group forums for non-members.
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[quote author="Luca" date="1293008180"]
[quote author="Andre" date="1293007779"] The number of users speaking Spanish, Portugese or Chinese also probably should not be underestimated. [/quote]I don't want to underestimate Spanish, Portugese or Chinese but I think that those discussions are very useless for the community other than Spanish, Portugese or Chinese . [/quote]
If it is useful for those subcommunities, it is IMHO useful for the Qt community in general.André
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[quote author="maciek" date="1293008849"]
You may be interested in reading "topic":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/2453 about hiding group forums for non-members.[/quote]Hi maciek,
This should be useful to avoid a lot of strange posts in "Posts since last visit" :-) -
I also commented on this issue in the comments of the "announcement blog":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/blog/view/beta_of_the_groups_feature_is_now_live_looking_for_feedback for the group function.
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[quote author="Andre" date="1293011791"]I also commented on this issue in the comments of the "announcement blog":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/blog/view/beta_of_the_groups_feature_is_now_live_looking_for_feedback for the group function.[/quote]
I've seen now your posts and I'm with you .
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[quote author="Luca" date="1293009391"]
[quote author="maciek" date="1293008849"]
You may be interested in reading "topic":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/2453 about hiding group forums for non-members.[/quote]Hi maciek,
This should be useful to avoid a lot of strange posts in "Posts since last visit" :-)[/quote]Yes, this should be fixed somehow.
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I've added a feature request that goes something like this, let me know if I forgot something:
"Since we now have language based forums we need a way for people to filter out the languages they don't speak/understand.
Maybe a solution is to "subscribe" to the forums you want to follow, where the default is "all" but you can unselect forums from a list.
This would then show up in the "Posts since last visit" search result. And the "193 new posts" counter on the front page should also ignore forums you don't follow."
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Do wish that non-english sub-forum can be well positioned? Sometimes people would like to use native language talking about techinians.
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I like the idea of subscribing to forums but don't know if it will be enough to address the language issue.
I would assume that people will start threads on any forum (mobile, desktop,...) using their "first language" and probably this is something that we want to support as long as we can create filters.
Is this suggestion in addition to or instead of the other language related suggestions for the forums?
Some that I remember:
being able flag thread with language tag (on first post);
language as search criteria;
filter language anywhere we have a list of threads;
language indicator for each thread anywhere we have a list of threads;
allowing users to select his preferred languages on profile so by language filters will default to them.These are just the ones I remember related to forums. There are others related to the wiki.
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I just created "a new thread":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/2870/ suggesting to remove the group forum threads from the "posts since last visit". I think it could be a work around until a longer term solution can be found.
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It's not spelled out explicitly, but part of common use :-) Before we had groups there was only english content in the forum (the wiki had translations already). This rule still applies but the groups owners can decide to allow native languages in their forums too. So the main forums are readable by all users, the non-english content is mainly in the regional forums (and therefore needs not tagged/marked specially, IMHO). Once the forum subscription is live (see Marius' comment "here":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewreply/16328/) we can opt out for the content we do not understand.
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However I think that there are people not interested in regional issues so, maybe they are not interesting for readers of other countries, for example a discussion in Russian about how to receive the Nokia's OVI store payments in Russia describing all the legal issues and taxes features. If you're living outside Russia maybe you won't be interested at all in these kind of regional topics.
So, I think is OK the different languages an multi-regions in the forum. Personally for me it's great to get in touch with different idioms because I'm learning not only a programming language.