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R. · 03 Dec 2006, 17:37

I'm not sure if that's a good idea for several reasons.

Nobody knows if Eva's site will remain closed or not, except Eva herself. Having said that, installing a subforum for German Meat Loaf talk may end up in a competitive situation, if Eva decides to switch her site online again.
If we install a German subforum, then we are literally forced to open at least a Dutch area as well, because we have a lot of Dutch visitors. This will mess up the forum structure even more as it is now, and it will get worse with every additional language.
Most of our German visitors speak English pretty well, in fact I'm sure 99% of them had English courses in school, so the language shouldn't be a real problem.
And finally it looks like that there's a temporary backup forum in the works, so we should wait how that works out.

03 Dec 2006, 17:37	#3
R. You dig. Join Date: 02.04.2002 Location: On the fothermucker Posts: 7,179	I'm not sure if that's a good idea for several reasons. Nobody knows if Eva's site will remain closed or not, except Eva herself. Having said that, installing a subforum for German Meat Loaf talk may end up in a competitive situation, if Eva decides to switch her site online again. If we install a German subforum, then we are literally forced to open at least a Dutch area as well, because we have a lot of Dutch visitors. This will mess up the forum structure even more as it is now, and it will get worse with every additional language. Most of our German visitors speak English pretty well, in fact I'm sure 99% of them had English courses in school, so the language shouldn't be a real problem. And finally it looks like that there's a temporary backup forum in the works, so we should wait how that works out.