Our standard installation is released with two language packs. But the more languages you have on your board, the more users you can attract, because many users simply don`t speak English very well and some of them will speak Russian.
Perhaps we could find some users who are willing to exchange language packs and give the extracted language pack to the Skadate team as a feature for the version 7.0. I think we all could benefit from such a development, cause I dont see us as competitors here, but as people who are exchanging ideas: and perhaps some language packs soon  ! But well it must be clear for the translator that a languange pack only makes sense, then there are no missing values in the standard configuration of it. And I`m aware of that this is a lot of extra work. But well then A translates it into German (me), B into French (perhaps Easton?), C into Spanish (perhaps Brusselsshrek or designx?),- we would have most of the important languages of the world in the box. Perhaps we can find an agreement and a deadline until when it is finished (would one month be ok?).

Then of course we would need somebody who translates it into Japanese and Chinese (there are a lot of them out there,- and I bet they wanna flirt too), but I wonder who could do that. Are there any volunteers around?

Nice suggestion Sean34. Is anybody yet going to support this idea?

This topic has already been discussed before:
http://www.skalfa.com/boards/ideas-exchange/language-files-t76.0.html

I agree the lack of languages is a bit of a problem.  I think the only way it can happen is if SkaDate at least do the organisation of making it possible (and easy) for anyone/everyone to contribute, i.e. a sort of open source development for the language packs.  For this to work, it needs firstly a structure, and secondly one or two developers willing to make the first move (regardless of whether anyone else contributes or not).

What 3 languages?

WOW! I`m deeply impressed!! Great thanks to the Skadate-Support and the technical department!!
Spanish and Portuguese are two very VERY amazing language packs to have! Now Skadate comes with 5 big language packs out of the box, and this five language packs are all global players (ok I dont wanna sound hybrid,-perhaps apart from German  ).

I just downloaded and installed the language packs and I really can feel the smile in my face ! Especially with Spanish you cover a very big part of the international world map, cause Spanish is besides English probably one of the most spoken languages of the world. But also with Portuguese, which is for example the official language in Brazil, we have a big player on board. Apart from that we have here countries in which only a little minority of the population speaks English. But the big minority of them has an internet connection or visits cybers ... Now we only still have to find the right pages to make advertisement. One of the other big advantages of these language packs is that they really cover all the language that is necessary on our boards (there are only some minor keys missing, but that can be fixed within 15 minutes). I have seen so called language options on the demo boards of some other software companies which are no real language options cause only a few words of the whole necessary infrastructure are acutally translated into the other language: the rest is simply English again (I dont wanna mention which companies, cause such kind of PR is probably forbidden on public accessible boards of different competitors: but you easily can google and check out some demos and you WILL see what I mean). But HERE we have full language packages which are complete for the whole and complex Skadate Software: as far as I can judge after a first installation and overview.

That is a really great and nice FEATURE to have, in my eyes far more important than a different forum or some simple effects, cause most of the people dont wanna write into a forum, they want to understand what they read, check profiles, chat, get in touch, flirt and date. What a pitty that I actually dont have so much time to make advertisement for my boards right now, but I will do that soon  !! And I`m sure the extended language capabilities are a big step towards more members and more traffic on our boards...

Muchas gracias y hasta pronto!
Con un cordial saludo
Sean
PS: After downloading and integrating the language pack, you have to active the new language under languages. If the language pack doesn`t load automatically you will have to set it as the

default language and press save.

You can easily change that later again. Then go to your board again, but before delete the cache, the cookies and the temporary files. And hupa, here it is.