General Discussion • Re: Pale Moon's PR Problem

Furthermore, a European stance might appear somewhat strange to the average non-English-speaking user for another reason. The language barrier was mentioned in this thread. And I think that would be a valid objection — one where Pale Moon falls somewhat behind other presentations. The websites of common browsers are multilingual. Not that I would particularly miss it. Possibly negligible — given all the translation features and AI integrations nowadays.

Yeah, I didn't even think of that at first, but we are far from being as international as Mozilla, and they are likely held to a lower standard due to being an American company. We have langpacks, yes, and there are a few sub-forums for non-English speakers, but for the most part out of our main developers, only Moonchild can really speak any European languages other than English. I think we have a couple devs that speak Filipino, but while internationally important, that's not a European language. The rest of the team has historically tended to consist of monolingual English speakers, as the project seems to draw American devs mostly. The majority of users who were most interested in older Mozilla... are interested in something that was popular back when computing was a lot more concentrated among English-speaking countries and Western Europe than it is now. That doesn't really send a "Europe-first" message.

As for myself, I am only fluent in English, even though I studied Latin in high school, know some Italian from studying it at one point, and also have been exposed to enough Spanish to understand basics, so would not actually say I "speak" any of those languages in a meaningful sense. If I were to get more serious about learning languages to improve international outreach, I'd likely focus on the Romance languages.