German Factorio Forums

[kornichen]

Hello,

I am planning to create a german Factorio Forum but first I want to know how many people would use that and if I am allowed to do that (maybe with permission of the creators of Factorio I can call it the "offical German Factorio Forum").

[sparr]

If there is demand for language-specific forums I hope the devs would host them here.

[ficolas]

If there is demand for language-specific forums I hope the devs would host them here.

there is alredy a french and russian forums:
http://www.factorio.com/community
They seem to be unnused but yea.

I personally think that there is no need for other-language forums, since the english one isnt really big.

[sparr]

If there is demand for language-specific forums I hope the devs would host them here.

there is alredy a french and russian forums:
http://www.factorio.com/community
They seem to be unnused but yea.

They would get used more if they were here.

I'm part of a lot of online forums where there are many english subforums, and one subforum for each other common language in the player base.

I'm also part of a few forums where there are many german, spanish, or japanese subforums, and one subforum for each other common language including english.

[Tardan]

i like to write in german, because my english is not the best. but mostly this forums get realy empty. a german subforum is much better i think.

talk with the factorio crew and vote yourself for moderator

[Gammro]

Coming from someone who is barely able to read, or even worse, speak and write German(Hallo, oosterburen ), but quite confident in my English skills:
I think one of the last things this game needs in this stage is fragmentation, developer endorsed fragmentation. I see this in a few communities, and although it is nice to give most people a place of their own, in really small communities(like Factorio is right now), it will lead to some information being available only in German(or even worse for me, French ) and having no English equivalent.

Of course there are people who are worse at reading english, but most people online have english as a common language right now, so having english as the major language would be the logical choice.

You're free to setup a German factorio forum, but right now I don't think it's the smart thing to endorse by the devs.

[drs9999]

Coming from someone who is barely able to read, or even worse, speak and write German(Hallo, oosterburen ), but quite confident in my English skills:
I think one of the last things this game needs in this stage is fragmentation, developer endorsed fragmentation. I see this in a few communities, and although it is nice to give most people a place of their own, in really small communities(like Factorio is right now), it will lead to some information being available only in German(or even worse for me, French ) and having no English equivalent.

Of course there are people who are worse at reading english, but most people online have english as a common language right now, so having english as the major language would be the logical choice.

You're free to setup a German factorio forum, but right now I don't think it's the smart thing to endorse by the devs.

+1

[Rens2Sea]

Agreed, having language-specific forums only splits the community.

[sparr]

Agreed, having language-specific forums only splits the community.

Do you mean this about having different forum websites, or about having language specific sub-forums on the same site?

Here is a forum that is 90% german, 10% other languages, and it works well to have language sub-forums on the same site, so people can link between threads easily: http://www.brettspielwelt.de/Forum/index.php

[ficolas]

I see no problem in having subforums for other languages, other than moderation (this forum doesnt seem to need much moderation anyways)