The international sections of Omnimaga forums are back. Some of the old members probably remember that on the old Invisionfree board in 2007, we had French, German, Dutch and Spanish sections to discuss about calculators and various topics. We also had another section for other languages. Eventually, the German, Dutch and Spanish sections merged with "Others".

Due to the increase in foreign users on the forums, especially French and Dutch users, we have decided to bring back some of those sections. Now you can notice one international section under calculator discussion and another under general discussion. Both contains a French, a Dutch and a miscellaneous language sub-forum, where you can discuss about calculators and other stuff.

Due to the high traffic in the projects section, we recommend showing your projects there, though, if it can be played by English users, but now it is possible to discuss in languages other than English on the forums.

Keep in mind that Omnimaga, despite having originally started as a French-only team and having got close to starting as a French website back in 2004, will remain mostly English, though, as the majority of our users are English-native and Omnimaga gets about 60% of the Z80 English TI community activity.

The front page navigation has been updated with the changes and the board rules are now available in both French and Dutch languages.

Thanks to Mapar007 for translating the rules in dutch and to NecroF-_-ckk for translating the board descriptions for the Dutch sections.

Finally, on the subject of board activity, Omnimaga just beaten a 4th specific month activity record in a row, all of which were originally set in 2006. In May that year, a total of 2386 posts were made.

Since all Omnimaga staff are mods on all forums, I guess you are.

Growing activity is going to stay.

I have a doubt regarding international forums:
Is there any guidelines about using translators to reply sometimes?

I will participate in Portuguese or Spanish talk if that ever happens. I might try to participate in any online forum or chat in German or French in long term future.

EDIT: I think the "Other" languages sub-forum needs a pinned topic for giving an idea of what active talkers we have in other languages than French and Dutch. It might even later have rules, brief descriptions and guidelines for showcasing projects.

I did not know about Dark Stone ban... Does that demotivated him for calculator projects?

Growing activity is going to stay.

I have a doubt regarding international forums:
Is there any guidelines about using translators to reply sometimes?

I will participate in Portuguese or Spanish talk if that ever happens. I might try to participate in any online forum or chat in German or French in long term future.

EDIT: I think the "Other" languages sub-forum needs a pinned topic for giving an idea of what active talkers we have in other languages than French and Dutch. It might even later have rules, brief descriptions and guidelines for showcasing projects.

I did not know about Dark Stone ban... Does that demotivated him for calculator projects?

People can use translators to reply if they want, altough they have to make sure they spell their original post properly so it goes through the translator well and even then, errors might occur, meaning some posts might not be totally understood well. Still better than nothing, though

As for the others section, feel free to help translating if you desire, altough I doubt translating the entire rules might be worth it since I doubt those other sections will get that many members

Oh cool, an International section. We'll see if it works well.

Heya, glad to see this reopen! I'm sure it'll attract more multi-lingual members. =D

I don't mind which reform to use, because french varies from a country to another and some people finished school long before others (and never learned the new grammar)

As long as SMS/MSN style talk is not abused