First off I’d like to say that it is really cool that roblox is trying to expand to other languages and make it so that more players can use the site comfortable. More players means more money for everyone blah blah blah… y’all know how economics works.
However… I don’t see a point in having a development discussion category that is strictly for non-english topics. One of the main pillars of a good discussion is having as many different viewpoints as possible, and creating discussion topics in other languages will lock out most of the other members of the forums.
I don’t see it being used very much outside of novelty cases, if I wanted help or ideas, or anything else that I would post on the “Development Discussion” there are is not a reason that I would want to limit the amount of people in the discussion based on the arbitrary language I happen to know.
Im not calling for its removal, but I do not see much purpose for it in here. But I’d like to know what you guys think about it.
I plan on using the new International category for regular developmental discussions
I do not plan on using the International category regularly.
I don’t see why we need a dedicated section on the forums for non native speakers as 99% of everybody else won’t be able to understand what they are saying.
It feels a little useless. They’re literally splitting up conversations and useful information by gently nudging people into each language category. The end result could be someone trying to find something, looking in the ‘Spanish’ section, not finding it, but it’s there in the English section.
It reminds me of a few weeks ago when roblox would tweet in spanish. They’d post the english tweet, then reply to it in Spanish. Twitter literally has an auto-translate feature built-in. So does chrome, right-click → translate.
This is coming from someone who knew a language other than English and had to learn it. I don’t so much think everyone should learn english, I just think there’d be more benefit in rough translations and everyone being together than splitting people (and information!) up.
I’m not sure what its purpose is, and I probably won’t be making any topics there, but I don’t see any problem with keeping it. Chrome’s page translate feature is pretty accurate and I can still engage in discussion in there.
Edit: I’ve read ScriptOn’s post and he makes a good point. While the category itself isn’t bad or hurting anything, it does seem like a place to foster many a duplicate post. The page translation feature, which I used above as justification for the category being just fine, can also be used as justification for getting rid of it and just having all posts in the main sections and leaving it up to auto-translate to do the rest.
I’m clearly biased, but the language of international ATC is English. As soon as a country impacting to the global economy other than the US and China arises, we should adopt that language. For the moment, however, learn English.
While I love the idea of Roblox expanding its developer base into different parts of the world. I don’t believe I will be using it frequently due to the fact that I speak English but I fully support the idea of having developers from all parts of the world make amazing games on Roblox.
Correct me if I’m wrong but you only have the option to code Rbx Lua in English, therefore most developers (except artists or modelers I suppose) would be well versed in English. So at least that information wouldn’t be split up. Or if it was, would be very inefficient and unnecessary.
I don’t plan on using it since I’m not bilingual, but I support the idea behind it. ScriptOn’s point about information being split up by language is valid, but the worst case scenario I can imagine is that native speakers of another language could use rough machine translations in the English sections while having the benefit of another category for their own language. Whether or not it’ll be useless will depend on whether or not there’s enough non-English speakers to use it, so I’m assuming Roblox intends to have international members in the future.
Since the category is presumably for all non-English languages doesn’t that mean that most devs using it probably won’t see stuff in their native language anyway? Right now it only seems to support Spanish.