# Free-threaded Python Community Discord **URL:** \ **Category:** Core Development\ **Created:** [April 16, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571 "2025-04-16T20:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thomas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/thomas/32/5492_2.png) [@thomas](https://discuss.python.org/u/thomas)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/1 "2025-04-16T20:30:33Z")
As a follow-up to some of [the PEP 779 discussion](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-779-criteria-for-supported-status-for-free-threaded-python/84319), 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](https://discord.gg/rqgHCDqdRr) is the invite link for anyone who wants to join. > **[Join the Free-threaded Python Community Discord Server!](https://discord.com/invite/rqgHCDqdRr)** > > This server is meant for discussions around and help with supporting free-threaded Python (https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/) in Python libraries. For more information see https://docs.python.org/3/howto/free-threading-python.html and... ---
**Author:** ![smontanaro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/smontanaro/32/1389_2.png) [@smontanaro](https://discuss.python.org/u/smontanaro)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/2 "2025-04-16T20:45:01Z")
I’m sure I’m missing something fundamental, but why wasn’t it sufficient to just add a new channel to [discuss.python.org](http://discuss.python.org)? ---
**Author:** ![thomas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/thomas/32/5492_2.png) [@thomas](https://discuss.python.org/u/thomas)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/3 "2025-04-16T20:48:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ngoldbaum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ngoldbaum/32/12276_2.png) [@ngoldbaum](https://discuss.python.org/u/ngoldbaum)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/4 "2025-04-16T20:50:37Z")
IMO we should do both: [Create a "Python Threading" category](https://discuss.python.org/t/create-a-python-threading-category/86075) I’m not sure what the process to add a new [discuss.python.org](http://discuss.python.org) category is after posting a thread in the feedback category. Should I ping someone? ---
**Author:** ![zware](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/zware/32/58_2.png) [@zware](https://discuss.python.org/u/zware)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/5 "2025-04-16T21:05:44Z")
> [@smontanaro](#): > > I’m sure I’m missing something fundamental 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. ---
**Author:** ![pitrou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/pitrou/32/28_2.png) [@pitrou](https://discuss.python.org/u/pitrou)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/6 "2025-04-16T21:31:31Z")
> [@zware](#): > > Discourse is the web forum software running this site; Discord is IRC with some extra bells and whistles. One of the bells and whistles being that it runs on proprietary software. 🤷 ---
**Author:** ![AA-Turner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/aa-turner/32/4979_2.png) [@AA-Turner](https://discuss.python.org/u/AA-Turner)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/7 "2025-04-16T21:40:31Z")
Perhaps ping the moderators? I’ve seen no opposition, and having an archive in a public/searchable forum is likely to be useful. A ---
**Author:** ![ambv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ambv/32/25884_2.png) [@ambv](https://discuss.python.org/u/ambv)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/free-threaded-python-community-discord/88571/8 "2025-04-17T16:13:46Z")
New category added to the forum: > **[Threading](https://discuss.python.org/c/threading/38)** > > Discussion of multithreaded Python programming, thread safety, and multithreaded parallelism.