Hi everyone, I am the creator of LibreOfficeForum.org. I'd just like to set a few things straight.
1. The forum DOES have full categories, similar to the two major OpenOffice.org forums. Please look at /forum or click on the Forums button toward the upper left. I prefer the "Recent posts" listing, because it is an easy way to see activity across all the categories, and it also helps spot and control SPAM posts in the comments of old threads, which is a real problem on some other forums. That being said, if most people find this too confusing, I can change the frontpage to show the full forum categories list. I would like to kindly and respectfully request everyone to give us your opinion on this change after looking at the site with an open mind and more than a passing glance. Yes, this is an unofficial site, and yes, it runs Adsense, but a lot of time, effort, and thought has gone into it to make it nice for the user. 2. Ads. Yes, we have them. They are only Adsense text ads, I do not and will never permit image ads or 3rd party sponsor ads. I think this is a responsible and simple method of keeping the forum running if it gets hit with more traffic. Good hosting is not cheap. I realize that some users hate ads with a passion. Most of those users are already running an ad blocker, so they will never see the ads anyway. And additionally, any registered user can disable the ads with two checkboxes in his user preferences. 3. Internationalization. I need to get the registration welcome email internationalized. I don't know how to do this yet, but it's on my list. At any rate, I feel that we are showing respect to people of other languages by offering the same exact forum (with all its categories translated) in none less than 10 languages. At least one moderator that speaks the language is assigned to each one. Again, thanks to everyone involved for making LibreOffice available, it's an extremely important piece of software in my life. Sorry if I don't receive all of your replies or respond promptly. I'm not very good with mailing lists and I don't use them much. Thanks, Sam -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
