As a follow-up to some of the PEP 779 discussion, and after fielding questions in a variety of places, a few of us working on Free-threaded Python decided it’d be good to have a place for people to ask questions and discuss issues a bit more interactively. Consequently, we’ve set up a separate Discord server to field user questions, help people port libraries to free-threaded Python, etc. https://discord.gg/rqgHCDqdRr is the invite link for anyone who wants to join.
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I’m sure I’m missing something fundamental, but why wasn’t it sufficient to just add a new channel to discuss.python.org?
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I’m not sure how to answer that question. The interactive experience is very different, as is the limited audience. It’s much easier to ask follow-up questions in an interactive environment, and people are sometimes more open to discussing their specific problems if the audience isn’t the whole world. A category on a web forum is not the same as an IRC channel.
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IMO we should do both: Create a "Python Threading" category
I’m not sure what the process to add a new discuss.python.org category is after posting a thread in the feedback category. Should I ping someone?
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My bet is on the very common conflation of Discourse and Discord, which despite sharing most of their names are two very different services (and we use both). Discourse is the web forum software running this site; Discord is IRC with some extra bells and whistles.
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One of the bells and whistles being that it runs on proprietary software. 
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Perhaps ping the moderators? I’ve seen no opposition, and having an archive in a public/searchable forum is likely to be useful.
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New category added to the forum:
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