Thanks for your nice reply
why do it, if it’s not directly valuable and other non-python.org channels exist
Well looking at Our Community | Python.org and Forums | Python.org there currently exist the following:
- the mailing lists – which I find less user-friendly than discourse
- a slack and a discord server – which I find strictly inferior to an open forum because they cannot be read without an account and their content is not indexed by search engines
- the IRC channels – which cannot be compared to a forum because the discussions aren’t structured (I am pretty sure only very few people read IRC logs afterwards)
- python-forum.io – uses MyBB, which I find less user-friendly than Discourse
- r/python and r/learnpython on Reddit – I have privacy concerns when it comes to reddit and reddit is notorious for using dark design patterns (like vehemently pushing mobile users to install its app that does more tracking)
And then there is this forum here, where general users are limited to a single category among all of the internal categories, which as a user just doesn’t feel very welcoming.
So I don’t find any of the existing forums for Python users as welcoming as:
- https://users.rust-lang.org/ is for Rust users
- https://discourse.elm-lang.org/ is for Elm users
- https://community.haxe.org/ is for Haxe users
- https://discourse.julialang.org/ is for Julia users
which is why I think an official discourse forum for Python users would be a valuable addition.