On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Arien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The non-English posts are clearly useful to the Django community as a >> whole, as it appears that the majority of its members don't speak >> English as their native tongue. > > I'm totally fine with non-English feeds being available.
I didn't think you had any problem with them. >>> Having *only* a [language-agnostic] firehose feed, as we do now, is a >>> problem. >> >> Why? > > Because, as I've mentioned earlier: users effectively get noise in > their feeds. For any post in a language other than English, *the vast > majority* of the Django community won't be able to read it. I'm not > only talking about native English speakers here; why should we expect > that a native Portuguese speaker will be able to read a Russian post? Users will get noise in their feeds anyway: not everyone has the same interests, skills, etc. Seeing posts in a language you don't understand is the least of your problems, I'd think. ;-) Arien --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
