Where to nerd out about python in the DPO?

[tim.one (Tim Peters)]

The Powers That Be have, best I can tell, always opposed opening this platform to general discussions.. Like, e.g, here:

Reconsider the "Users" category?

That would be a sad outcome. Hence why I’m not proposing that, but saying what the realistic outcomes are from my perspective if people insist on a “Discussions” category. I appreciate folks want to help other people out, but we have a scaling problem here that is not easy to solve (don’t forget we have tens of millions of potential users of this place as it is if you consider the entire Python community). I’m okay with the idea that asking for help for that potentially esoteric issue that …

So, ya, Python Help is it. I get my needs to “just talk” met by private mailing lists. On Discourse, the DM system can be used for private conversations among people selected in advance. People can leave such a group as they please. Really quite a nice way to carry on discussion with limited appeal, with limited groups. But they’re not publicly visible.