For the past few weeks we’ve been quietly releasing international languages on Tal.ki forums thanks to helpful volunteers and admins.  We’d like to specifically thank bligoo.com, the popular South American web communities service for such a great help with our Spanish Translation

We’ve completed the translations into the following languages:

• German (Deutsch)
• Spanish (Español)
• Italian (Italiano)
• Portugese (Português)

Your forum will automatically display in the language you have set as the default language in your webbrowser.  If you have questions about this, please check out our FAQ.

Photo Credit: CC license by dilaudid on flickr

Forum-Software.org was kind enough to spend the time reviewing Tal.ki Forums and put together a four page review along with screenshots and feature comparisons.

And if you want to suggest a feature, we’re all ears, just head to our Feature Suggestion site.

Please take 30 seconds of your time and Vote for Tal.ki!

How to get the Free Tal.ki Pro plan?

1. Go to this Facebook post announcing the Facebook giveaway (more details here)
2. Click ‘Like’ button on top of our Facebook Page to join our community.
3. Post a comment with your tal.ki forum title and url (required).
4. Share you experience about setting up a forum on your site (Optional)

After 5 days all the tal.ki urls submitted will be put into the List Randomizer tool and the the top 3 winners will be announced. The tal.ki guys will upgrade your forum with a 1 year talki pro license from the backend.

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Today we released our official Drupal Module for the Drupal CMS.  So if you’re running Drupal on your website, you can easily add the Tal.ki Module to take advantage of things like Single Sign-On (SSO).  We’ll have it listed in the official drupal.org directory soon.

Learn how to install the Tal.ki Forums module for Drupal

Today we released ‘RSS Feeds’ for your forum so that members can subscribe to topics across all forums or an individual sub-forum.  Your forum even has a feed for members that have joined if you would like to keep up with that information.

We currently offer the following feeds:

• New topics across the entire forum - /feeds/topics/
• New topics within a sub-forum - /general/feeds/topics/
• New member feed - /feeds/members/

In addition to subscribing to these feeds, you can use tools like feedburner.com to offer them as email subscriptions to your members, or use javascript widgets to republish the feeds on your websites homepage or sidebar.

Learn more.

We added a Facebook ‘Like’ button alongside the ‘Share This’ icons for Twitter and email.  Now your members can just click with a mouse to vote on a topic and indicate if they like it.  The count will be updated in realtime for them and returning visitors to the topic.

Today we released two updates to our Wordpress and Joomla! plugins allowing site owners to add a 2nd widget to their sidebar to show recent topics that were posted in.  These sidebar widgets are viewable from any page on the site and will help drive new traffic to your forum by displaying forum activity to all visitors.

We have plans to build this sidebar widget for other sites and services in the future.

Learn how to install the sidebar widget in our plugin guides:

• Wordpress Tal.ki Forums Guide
• Joomla! Tal.ki Forums Guide

Know anybody that runs a Joomla! website?  Let them know about the new extension we just released.  Add a Tal.ki forum to a Joomla! site with just a few clicks.

• View the extension in the Joomla! directory and download it

Please vote and rate our Tal.ki forum, as your feedback helps drive new developments of the product.

And be sure to check out our other plugins, we’re now featuring over 5 plugins that make Tal.ki a snap to add to your website.

Tal.ki automatically detects the CSS of your website and styles your forum automatically, however we had requests for more control over the CSS so we’ve added support for external CSS files to be used for your forum.  This is available for Platinum and higher Tal.ki plans.

• More info on custom CSS
• More info on plans and pricing

Weebly.com site owners can now add a Tal.ki embeddable forum simply by clicking the ‘More’ tab in their site Editor and dragging ‘Forums by Tal.ki’ onto their webpage.

More about Weebly:

Weebly is a San Francisco, California based company that was founded in 2006 with the mission to help people put their information online quickly and easily. We now enable 3 million people to easily create personal sites and blogs or establish web presences for businesses, weddings, classrooms, churches, artistic portfolios, and more.

In early 2007, the Weebly founding team joined a seed funding program called Y Combinator and began working full-time to make the Weebly service spectacular. We were proud to be named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2007, and have continued to improve Weebly’s feature set and ease of use.

Simple Website Creation Meets Simple Community Creation - The millions of users on Yola.com, a website creation service, are now able to quickly embed Tal.ki forums and add instant community to all their sites.

Today’s announcement means that the millions of website creators on Yola.com can now add a community forum to their site in a matter of seconds. For a website creator, it’s as simple as ‘dragging and dropping’ the Tal.ki Forums plugin from the Advanced Widgets toolbar directly onto their page. The forum will automatically match the colors and layout of the page. 

Read the full Press Release.

You asked and we’ve built. Members can now change their displayed name by clicking ‘Edit Profile’ where they can also change their avatar. Max 16 chars, but you can use pretty much any characters you want!

Per a request of one tal.ki admin, we added an option to hide your member list on your forum (it’s on by default)

Admins can now choose which login button appears to their members, you have the following choices:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google
• Yahoo
• Open ID
• Generic ‘Login or Sign up’
• All (shows a handful of small different login icons)