Why Dolphin is not the best community software

Hi everybody,

Don´t get so excited about the subjet line. I´m not going to badmouth DOLPHIN or BOONEX.

But the statement on the subject has a very good reason to be.

So far, Boonex has done little (just for the benefit of the doubt) or nothing in order to help Dolphin really become a true community script. Why do I say this, because Dolphin only offers an English version. For those of us who want to build communities in other languages we just get a "do it yourself or else..." message.

I love Dolphin as a script. Of course I think it does have tons of features not even considered by other community sites. But when it comes to building a non English community, Dolphin is one the few good scripts that doesn´t offer a solution to this language issue.

I know some might say, get a language pack at expertzz... Yes, I am aware of the existence those horrible translations. If I had succeded in finding one that worked, I would not be posting this.

I did translate version 6.1x into Spanish, only to find that this long translation, word by word, expression by expression (I mean, every single line by line, not generic words from a pool of words) was completely useless with version 7x... It wouldn´t be exaggerated to think that if I translate version 7, as soon as we get an update this would become obsolete right away.

So, my request to BOONEX and this community is that you please include a simple way of storing language strings, so that they can be easily translated and used in all versions, just as so many other cms and community sites do.

When you do that, you will probably become the true best community software in the market.

Thanks and regards,

Hernán