Irelands Newest Social Media Site.

deise go deo

Abair Leat

The world’s first social network dedicated to the Irish language Abair Leat! has officially launched, which aims to help normalise the use of Irish in casual settings.
The Site is built with the Contain platform, which integrates its language features to make using Irish on the site easier. It includes integrated translation and spelling to allow users with all competencies of Irish to use the site.
It asks users to make posts and comments which contain at least 70pc Irish. The remaining 30pc facilitates non-standard spelling and non-Irish words which may need to be included.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25976-irish-language-social/




They want to get 50,000 useres by the end of the year.

Sonic the Large Cock

they can fook off

Biggins

deise go deo wrote: »

...They want to get 50,000 users by the end of the year.

Optimistic but worldwide, I suppose anything is possible.

admiralofthefleet

fair play to them. id love to be able to fluently speak my national language

Robdude

It's stupid.

quietriot

Waste of time and effort, put simply.

MIN2511

Des Bishop - say no more!

sgb

If I'm the 50,000 person to sign up will I win an i phone?

Lord TSC

*Watches as loads of people sign up but post in English anyway*

flanders1979

If the creators aren't looking for a grant for it they can do what they want.

Andromeda_111

I think it's a great idea. Having said that I won't be signing up because I won't understand a word that's posted but it'll be a great way for people to further use our national language.

deise go deo

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

*Watches as loads of people sign up but post in English anyway*

Good Luck with that, Posts in English are not accepted by the site, has to be at least 70% in Irish, the site has an inbuilt translate and spelling/grammer check.

Robdude

Existing social networking sites already exist in just about every language imaginable. Nothing prevents people from using the English site and posting other languages either.

Here's an article from 3 years ago talking about Facebook expanding into 100+ languages: http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/03/17/facebook-from-1-to-100-languages-in-two-years/

Beyond that - the people who have an actual use for communicating in Irish are, largely, not the people who use the internet.

It's a non-solution to a non-problem.

4zn76tysfajdxp

How odd. I've seen loads of people posting in Irish on Facebook. What's stopping people from going there?

deise go deo

Biggins wrote: »

Optimistic but worldwide, I suppose anything is possible.

In fairness it's not really, there are 40,000+ kids in Gaelscoils today, thats appart from the Gaeltachts.

deise go deo

Cameron Cool Freezer wrote: »

How odd. I've seen loads of people posting in Irish on Facebook. What's stopping people from going there?

Nothing, this site is just aimed at the Irish speaking community specificaly.

grindle

Isn't this the same idea that Chris from 'The Apprentice' had, but his was called 'Sprag'?

The King of Moo

I don't get why some people would get so angry about this. If you don't speak Irish, don't use it. But it's not doing anyone any harm.

I'm not sure how successful it'll be, but good luck to them, I applaud any attempt to make the language more interesting and accessible.

kenobrien

I think it's a great idea. I hated Irish in school, but recently went back to learn it, and love it. I'll be signing up.

dreamerking

I can't see that taking off. Although it might be helpful for secondary school students wishing to improve their grasp of the language.

Skid

If the TG4 Presenter Babes couldn't get me speaking Irish, a Facebook clone won't Tuiseal my Ginideach .

deise go deo

dreamerking wrote: »

I can't see that taking off. Although it might be helpful for secondary school students wishing to improve their grasp of the language.

Well we'll see, it was launched yesterday, it has over 2000 members today.

squod

Won't accept póg mo thóin as a username. Useless !

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Doesn't accept fada's in usernames :rolleyes:

squod

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Doesn't accept fada's in usernames :rolleyes:

Oh. my. God.

quietriot

deise go deo, vested interest much?

Hail 2 Da Chimp

squod wrote: »

Oh. my. God.

And I went to all the trouble of going to Google translate to translate my username :mad:

44leto

So another example of a discriminatory Irish website that excludes me.

deise go deo

quietriot wrote: »

deise go deo, vested interest much?

How so?

deise go deo

44leto wrote: »

So another example of a discriminatory Irish website that excludes me.

Ya, and we're all talking about you as well:pac:

FouxDaFaFa

It's actually pretty nice to use, been messing around with it there. More like Twitter than Facebook.

Phill Ewinn

What's atari jaguar as gaeilge?

drunkmonkey

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

What's atari jaguar as gaeilge?

Mo Gaeilge Is dona go leor, níl a fhios conas gur mhaith liom gas gan aistritheoirí ar líne.
Seo a théann tú kiddo tá sé: Atari jaguar

Morag

great they can all go over there and natter among themsleves, it will make them easier to ignore.

Morag

great they can all go over there and natter among themsleves, it will make them easier to ignore.

dory

They have Big Brother as Gaeilge with actors instead of it being a reality thing. Bizarre!!

dory

They have Big Brother as Gaeilge with actors instead of it being a reality thing. Bizarre!!

SugarCoat

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4zn76tysfajdxp

Sharrow wrote: »

great they can all go over there and natter among themsleves, it will make them easier to ignore.

Sharrow wrote: »

great they can all go over there and natter among themsleves, it will make them easier to ignore.

Just like how you're nattering amongst yourself?

Niall0001

They can dream on if they're hoping to get 50,000 sign-ups by the end of the year. Nothing more than a free-hosted blog created with Kontain, one of the beginner blog templates (but does look pretty). Will not rank for meaningful keywords on Google as a result so can expect no consequential targeted traffic.

Unless they have serious guerilla marketing/PR stunts afoot, huge money behind them (doubtful as it's a free host) to spúnk on AdWords campaigns & feverish general promotion it's destined to fail. Can't find a social media hookup (eg. FB 'like', 'Tweet', Google + buttons) on there even.

Doomed.

OP: has this project been registered as a business (thus resulting in, at the very least, a website grant of up to €1000 depending on county)?

Flancrest

Robdude wrote: »

Existing social networking sites already exist in just about every language imaginable. Nothing prevents people from using the English site and posting other languages either.

Here's an article from 3 years ago talking about Facebook expanding into 100+ languages: http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/03/17/facebook-from-1-to-100-languages-in-two-years/

Beyond that - the people who have an actual use for communicating in Irish are, largely, not the people who use the internet.

It's a non-solution to a non-problem.

What in the name of sweet baby Jesus is a non - solution to a non problem. That makes no sense at all.
How do know a large percentage of native speakers don't use the internet. Have you asked them all. Doubtful. And maybe they'd use it more if they had an Irish social networking site.

AeoNGriM

Why didn't they just call it Aghaidh Leabhar?

Wibbs

deise go deo wrote: »

How so?

Maybe they're referring to the observation that the vast majority of your posts reference the Irish language. Like I said before if you started as many threads about how great Israel is you'd have folks thinking you were a mossad plant. Gael Linn plant maybe?

As for the site, good luck to them. It'll rise or fall on merit and a fair bit of luck. So long as they're not looking for government grants for the place fair play.

eth0

Fair play to whoever made that site. I hope it works out for them and they get 100k+ members soon

Ficheall

Íosa Chríost, tá an suíomh sin ag cur as dom. Ní cheadaítear 'post' a dhéanamh muna bhfuil ar a laghad 70% de igceart, ó thaobh an Gaeilge de. Ní haon drochsmaoineamh é sin, ar ndóigh, ach tá an foclóir nó cíbé rud a bhfuil acu go húafásach. Deireann sé go bhfuil focail a bhfuil ceart mícheart, agus fiú má phiocann tú ceann de na moltaí a thugann siad duit ó liosta, fós deireann sé go bhfuil sé mícheart! :mad:
Ní oibríonn an rogha gan aird a thabhairt air ach oiread.

Jesus, that site is annoying me. A post must be at least 70% correct, as far as the Irish is concerned, before one is allowed to post it. That isn't a bad idea, but whatever software they're using to check it is awful. It's saying that correct words are incorrect, and even using their spellchecker, if you choose one of the words they suggest, it's still marked wrong!
The "Ignore word" option doesn't work either.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Preaching to the choir again, I'm afraid. Do the Irish speakers really need somthing like this?

Wibbs

Ficheall wrote: »

Íosa Chríost, tá an suíomh sin ag cur as dom. Ní cheadaítear 'post' a dhéanamh muna bhfuil ar a laghad 70% de igceart, ó thaobh an Gaeilge de. Ní haon drochsmaoineamh é sin, ar ndóigh, ach tá an foclóir nó cíbé rud a bhfuil acu go húafásach. Deireann sé go bhfuil focail a bhfuil ceart mícheart, agus fiú má phiocann tú ceann de na moltaí a thugann siad duit ó liosta, fós deireann sé go bhfuil sé mícheart! :mad:
Ní oibríonn an rogha gan aird a thabhairt air ach oiread.

Jesus, that site is annoying me. A post must be at least 70% correct, as far as the Irish is concerned, before one is allowed to post it. That isn't a bad idea, but whatever software they're using to check it is awful. It's saying that correct words are incorrect, and even using their spellchecker, if you choose one of the words they suggest, it's still marked wrong!
The "Ignore word" option doesn't work either.

That's a real pity F. If it's putting off fluent folks like yourself, it's really gonna put off genuinely interested newbs who might want to jump in. They're the people it needs to attract. Is there a contact link or mods you could have a quiet word with? Maybe not such a quiet word... "WTF" as Gaelige springs readily. Maybe suggest a two tier site, with one for newbs without the overly strident(and wrong)spellchecker? Or just get people to mod it. I'm sure they'd have plenty of takers. Better yet direct people to Teach Na nGealt here where all that's set up anyway.

Wibbs

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Preaching to the choir again, I'm afraid. Do the Irish speakers really need somthing like this?

No but Irish does, if it's gonna thrive beyond the current fashion for Gaelscoils. So IMH it's a good idea, but needs more thought and needs to be more organic and grassroots. Exclusion like this will make it fall flat on it's arse.

Ficheall

Aye, déanfaidh mé iarracht dul i dteagmháil leo, Wibbs. Ach feicim nach dtugtar focail le thuas-litreacha san áireamh, so is féidir an 'workaround' sin a úsáid ar a laghad...

Aye, I'll try to contact them, Wibbs. Though I see that they ignore words in capitals, so for the moment one can use that workaround...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Wibbs wrote: »

No but Irish does, if it's gonna thrive beyond the current fashion for Gaelscoils. So IMH it's a good idea, but needs more thought and needs to be more organic and grassroots. Exclusion like this will make it fall flat on it's arse.

That is the trap I was refering to. I had a look and thought, "oh, it's for Irish speakers" and moved on.

Sisko

Its a good idea, fair play.