Communicating in English on social media?

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Hello everyone :slight_smile:

I’d like to better develop the Gladys community internationally, to attract more developers who could bring even more integrations to Gladys!

The missing piece for me right now to really be international is the presence on social networks, which is currently only in French, notably on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Several options are possible to communicate in English: stop using French and speak only English, or split my communications by creating, for example, accounts « gladysassistant.en Â»â€¦

For my part, I communicate entirely in English at work so switching to 100% English is not a problem for me, but I’m unsure whether it’s an issue for the French community or not…

In your opinion, should I:

  • Switch entirely to English
  • Create separate accounts and communicate in both
  • Keep a single account but post in two languages
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I’d welcome your feedback on this :slight_smile:

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For me, using both languages on the same account isn’t a problem but double-posting is annoying.
I’m subscribed on X to bilingual accounts that post twice (one in French, the other in Dutch) and frankly, receiving the same message twice made me disable notifications…
If I’m not mistaken, all the developers, or almost all, speak English, so if they’re the ones you’re targeting, regardless of the original language, English should be prioritized.
However, for users, it’s another matter. Since English is international, I’d put

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For me, two forums (French/English) like for HA (Home Assistant), Jeedom, etc., are good

As for social networks, I’m not present on them (too time-consuming) so I won’t weigh in, but we mustn’t forget that there are many French speakers around the world who don’t necessarily speak English (or don’t want to). I think that as the project’s initiator you can make everything global (announcements, polls, etc.) in both languages, but if you switch everything exclusively to English you’ll drive away a category of people (damn, we’ll end up no longer speaking :clipperton_island: in this country!)
And if we wanted to attract the largest possible crowd, there would be Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, etc.
Each language should have its own community and keep its forum and social network alive :blush:
And what could also be interesting is to do a survey on the impact of social networks on Gladys adoption… :thinking:

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For me, in your communications you start with English and then underneath you put French.

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On Instagram and Facebook, I follow bilingual accounts that post the French or Dutch text first. And below it, in the same post, the English translation (« English Below :arrow_down: Â»). Or vice versa. It works very well.

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Frankly, I’m not an anglophile… I’m more of an anglophobe…

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As far as I’m concerned, the official announcements from Gladys, whether they are on one account or two, don’t change much.

Now that the forums are separated it’s a shame because sometimes there can be answers on the English forum or vice versa and with a quick DeepL it’s sorted, and the EN forum, which is less populated, would benefit from the activity of the FR to appear in search engine results.
YunoHost uses both languages on their forum.
IodéOS favors English but there are 3 languages (FR EN DE)

It is surely possible to make automatic and random posts on social networks via n8n or others.

There is no official French forum on HA.

The HACF community is unofficial; we created it for French speakers after asking HA to make a FR forum section in the official forum, which they had refused.

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