1. Why has it been 4 years since the last featured language was added?
2. and why has a new one not been added?
There are plenty of options:
Turkish
Romanian
Norwegian
Just to name a few
Quizmaster, do you have any plans to add a new language? I think it would be great for many JetPunkers and would add something new and fun. Keep me posted.
-jbro
—QM
"No money in that"
— QM
People don't realize that we actually lose money on some countries. Norway is profitable but...
1) Population is smaller than most U.S. states
2) Everyone there speaks perfect English
3) Revenue/user still less than half the U.S.
Wait. I'm not sure if adding Chinese is a good idea...
For mouse (the computer peripheral) alone, you need to accept 鼠标 鼠標 滑鼠 (and shubiao, huashu if you add romanization in) and maybe more im not aware of.
The same simplified character can also correspond to multiple traditional characters. (e.g. 发 - 髪 / 發)
You get the point
Back in 2013, I made the first section (French) which included many quizzes I translated myself as a beginning French speaker.
Obviously, things have been improved a lot since then. Today we get nearly as much traffic from France as we do from the U.S. But... we make more than 10x as much revenue from our U.S. traffic.
There is actually zero business case for any non-English languages. But we maintain it as a service to our users.