My personal experience is that I just translate one idiom from one language / culture to the other without realising and still expect ppl. to know what I mean.

That often works in my experience, and can lead to funny moments

Just because you have a national solution that’s crap doesn’t mean the rest of us should agree to have a European solution that’s crap too, even if it’s less crap than what you already have.

I’m not knowledgeable enough about this particular project to be able to give an informed opinion as to whether it’s bad or good (though the article raises some points I would consider concerning), I was merely reflecting that there can be enough valid criticism of the implementation of something that’s good and useful in theory to make it simply bad, and that not every criticism can be dismissed by saying something is better than nothing.

Bad is the enemy of good, too

Even without considering cheese villages (somebody mentioned Roquefort, I was thinking of Gruyere, France clocking in at about 100 inhabitants), I believe Verdun would be just as known and is smaller at a population of around 17000.

For a group our size (we regularly have over 800 people on our mumble, peak is somewhere around the 1.3k mark if I remember correctly), it would also be very cost prohibitive to use TS