If you have any suggestions for boards to add or ways we can organize existing boards, please post them here.
I have the skeleton down but I know there are things I overlooked or which could be improved. 
Hmm for some reason I can vote on this board?
Edit: It appears as though this category allows for it.
Yes, my intention was people could upvote the suggestions they like the best so we can prioritize
Is there a way to turn off emoticon to emoji conversion? Ex: when I type 
(stick out tongue) it converts to an emoji, but I’d like to keep it in emoticon form. Doesn’t seem like there’s an option for that in the settings, dunno if I glossed over it or it isn’t possible? Thanks in advance
I’ll look into it and see what I can find for you.
A visual novel corner i think would be cool to have
Can we set up a guide for Japanese users who may join from Twitter? [USER=837]@kare_reiko[/USER] would you be able to help with that? [USER=1]@jessiray[/USER] [USER=5]@Aidan Uzuki[/USER] Do we have support for other languages? Thank you all!
I’ve been trying to help new users realize we exist
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Unfortunately my own Japanese skills are… Lacking. Most of the staff are English speakers with a few exceptions though the boards should accept any language you throw at it. I’m not sure if there is a basis in other languages. That’s probably a more later goal for now.
Yeah, I’m hoping we can have some kind of super basic “Hey, here’s how to register, we’re still working on it but feel free to grab your username!” kind of post
Which I can draft if someone who’s a native speaker can check it for me
Yeah I’m assuming anything with Unicode support might work on the forums I know a few niche languages but my proficiency in them isn’t enough to write up the whole site.
Oh wow! Thanks so much for the signal boost.
So I think Xenforo is in multiple languages. Our soft-rule until now has been to try to use English here as we don’t really have the ability to moderate posts in other languages, however; with Twitter going down and the fandom losing a major hub for content we might have to accommodate.
I’d be open to making sub sections of the board for other languages if we had the ability to moderate them. Honestly it would be good to get French and Chinese support eventually in addition to Japanese as well since the games seem uniquely popular and have their own fandoms in those places (despite never getting a wide release).
I’m gonna look into this.
Thank you!!
Well, I can only understand from hearing Japanese, I never wrote anything serious in this lanuage, even my translatin works are mostly: I know some grammar + I help myself with google+ dictionary + I understand a lot of sentences after watching/playing japanese games/anime for past 18 years :D, I’m translating some stuff because no one else wants to do that more professionally XD. So I’m not best person for that quest.
This whole time I’d assumed you were a native speaker, so you’re doing something right!
Great idea, thank you!! Obviously it won’t be perfect but it’s way better than nothing and should be able to help people get set up with an account etc if they’d like to. If you’d like, I’d be glad to write a post to the effect of “Hey there, we’re not native speakers but you’re welcome to join and we’ll all try our best”
Go for it! I encourage anyone who feels like it to promote the site to fans globally.
Thank you so much!
Okay, new idea: we have a welcome message in several languages; I’ll draft it for your approval
How’s this? I can make a thread somewhere (let me know where’s best) and we can pin it. This is through DeepL with some slight cleanup. I can do Spanish as well. If our other users want to contribute Chinese, French, and others we can include those too.
ETA: I’ll keep tweaking this based on admin suggestions for verbiage/best practices/etc. I’m fairly confident in the Japanese and Spanish translations but also welcome feedback/corrections/help with nuance. I’ll add Chinese and French tentatively through DeepL in hopes that our members who speak these languages can help make corrections (if they’d like to).
We can figure out a slimmed down version of the rules, too, to cover the highlights, and explain that our preference for English is so we can moderate fairly, if that’s what our admins prefer.
English
Japanese/日本語 (via DeepL; I can read this pretty well)
Spanish/Español (via DeepL; I can read this very well)
Chinese (Simplified)/中文简化字 (via DeepL, I cannot read this to confirm; used Wikipedia to add game titles, not sure how to translate “Xenofans”; would [USER=828]@tomxie[/USER] be able to confirm?)
French/Français (via DeepL; I can mostly read this, but would [USER=18]@Valkyrie[/USER] be able to confirm?)
Polish/Polski (via DeepL; I can vaguely read it, would [USER=837]@kare_reiko[/USER] mind confirming?)
Nah, I’m Polish and both English and Japanese are just languages I know a little XD, so it’s always a little harder to translate from one language you “somehow understand” to one that you know well but not perfect. But once I love something I try to know all possible from it’s canon and if I’m crazy enough for it, then do something to show others that parts of the canon and story.