Forum language?
It would be nice to have Steam or forum posters specify what language they are posting in, as some kind of metadata that could then be filtered.

Where most forums are in English (which is, more or less, used globally) with the occasional thread in another language there are some games where this is not the case. If English is not the official "go-to" language it makes it almost impossible to navigate such forums for most of the world in such cases.

Case in point: Escape From Duckov seems to have a very large audience in China, and as such those forums are full of threads in Chinese. It would be nice if I could actually filter these threads out to see only the threads I can understand and take part in.

PS. Please don't misunderstand - I don't wish to punish people posting in other languages. If anything I'd like this to be something like the reviews where I people can pick the languages they're proficent with and can then see threads only in those languages.
Last edited by Urban Shaman; 7 hours ago
Originally posted by space:
i'm not missing any point, if you want to submit a suggestion, try the suggestions forum

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/10/
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some forums have language specific sub forums, i dunno about duckov, don't care about it
Originally posted by space:
some forums have language specific sub forums, i dunno about duckov, don't care about it
I don't wish to make this about any one specific game - that was just the most recent game where I thought this was a problem.

Language specific subforums are, realistically, the only option since Steam doesn't have this metadata flag / filtering I suggested...
it's up to the devs to include specific sub forums, most don't bother
Originally posted by space:
it's up to the devs to include specific sub forums, most don't bother
You seem to be missing the point.

At the moment that's the ONLY option, i.e. devs need to create language specific subforums. And because they don't bother this may be a bigger or smaller problem, depending on the geographical popularity of any given title.

I'm proposing a more global option, that would work for all forums which wouldn't require devs to do much of anything.
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i'm not missing any point, if you want to submit a suggestion, try the suggestions forum

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/10/
Last edited by space; 6 hours ago
Originally posted by space:
i'm not missing any point, if you want to submit a suggestion, try the suggestions forum

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/10/
Fair enough.
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