Factorio Forums

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").

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

sparr wrote: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.

ficolas wrote:

sparr wrote: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.

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

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.

Gammro wrote: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

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

Rens2Sea wrote: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

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