[Stephan Whelan]

subaquaticus,

Thanks for your feedback and suggestion on a French speaking area.

I have to say i'm not convinced that opening a French speaking area is a good idea. As you admit yourself there are a small number of French speaking people on the forums. We also have to have french speaking mentors and team leaders to ensure that the forum rules are applied (we have legal obligations to comply with as well so need French speaking mentors and team leaders in place). In addition, french speaking members who don't speak english (the ones you are targeting) will have trouble navigating the English menus and all notifications and registration is in English.

I'll be honest that it is a lot of work to customise areas of the site to handle French speakers and as someone pointed out, why would French be the only non-english Language used? Why not spanish? Or russian? Or Italian?

My advice would be to look to setup a French Only forum, or look to improve an existing French speaking website. I'm certainly willing to help work with people to setup these website (even perhaps have a DB.fr website forum) but the logistics and legal issues with tagging it onto this forum outweigh any benefits I can see.