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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4296 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 9 of 11 30 April 2014 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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The problem is that there are more people on the English forums, and the non-Anglophone
ones do not have as many contributors. For example, I cannot insofar find an equivalent chess forum in Spanish, which not only is the third most spoken language, but has a large quantity of chess players (ajedrecistas), both professional and non-professional. The same applies to French, Dutch, Swedish, etc. However, I can find at least five in English, some whereof probably have hundreds of thousands of members. I think that there are some in Russian, which I unfortunately do not speak or study. There is no abundance of Norwegian forums, and the current World Champion is Norwegian. Hopefully English is balanced by other languages very soon and loses dominance in the internet to allow others a chance. Edited by 1e4e6 on 01 May 2014 at 8:54am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5192 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 10 of 11 01 May 2014 at 6:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I haven't found anything worth joining. Some of my interests barely have an active
forum in English. I did try looking for French travel blogs once though. I didn't read anything, just skimmed a few, but one or two looked interesting and I'll be searching again in the future. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4105 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 11 of 11 01 May 2014 at 8:44am | IP Logged | ||
Function-wise, they are very very basic. There is a discussion page where you can add a message (with or without a photo or a link). Then people can respond and the replies are attached to the original post. Everything is out in the open, no separate pages for threads, just one long page with grouped messages, and Facebook-culture means that people write pretty short replies or just press the "Like" button. There is also an "Event" page, usually only used by regional groups for inviting people to outings, and a "Photos" and a "Files" page for group-specific information. That's it. Most groups are inactive. Lots of people use them as funny "badges" on their profile (those are the groups with names like "I love boobies!") or to show their support for a cause (groups with names like "Don't forget about Earth Hour"). In my experience, the ones that are active have rallying causes (in the case of groups I'm a member of: the survival of minority languages) or a super-active administrator who is single-handedly keeping the group alive by posting links almost every day, which eventually lead to some discussion. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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