Standard Language?

[franco]

Here you go, I hope I got the spelling right.

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?board=29.0


Cheers,
Franco

PS: You are the moderator

[Ciprian]

Hwoaaaaaaaaaa!   

People from Romania thank you!

PS The spelling is perfect

[elektroinside]

Spoiled the first post You can delete it if you think it's for the best, no hard feelings here

[Ciprian]

It's OK, don't worry. 🙃

[thefunkygibbon]

I was going to post about this same subject when i thought I'd check to see if i wasn't the only one thinking it.   And here we are.

Totally agree.  Small userbase as it is, it really shouldnt be further splitting that community up into languages. 

I use and am a member of many many forums for many products and the vast majority of them, especially if they are official vendor community forums, are in English. Unless the product is only used in one region (Russian/Chinese products spring to mind).  Google Translate is there for those who cannot post or read in English. I speak to German people all of the time in business and my friendship circles and tbh they have usually a better grasp at the English language than a lot of English people!

The issues don't just stop at the splitting up of the community, but also in terms of duplicating of posts, users trying to find support and help on certain topics.  There may well be nothing coming up when searching for the problem, but given that there are so many posts in German etc, there may well be others who had the same problem but they'd never know since the search terms would be some other word.
Same goes for any articles, help documents or any other posts that are specifically posted in a different language.

I'm not talking about some kind of language based FOMO, but I really do feel that splitting the language really dilutes the community and restricts things.  Also given that there are usually only a handful of people who tend to actually reply/provide solutions for questions that are asked, I'm sure that those brilliant and kind individuals can't be bothered to duplicate something that they already answered in a different language elsewhere on the same forums.

Sorry for the rant.

[franco]

I get it, but the German community historically lacks the English skills needed to sufficiently communicate. It's slowly changing for the better, but you need to understand that any type of support in Germany has a good chance of requiring German even to this day.

This visible forum split is no exception to this and the fact that probably at least a third of OPNsense is used in German context (Swiss and Austrian included) won't make this any better in the mid-term even.

Also, why do you claim "small" user base? What do you think a small user base is in numbers?


Cheers,
Franco