community.txt

# Where is the community?

## Getting help, asking questions, solving problems

There are several places you can get help or ask questions
about SWI-Prolog or Prolog programming in general.

    - The list of [[frequently asked questions][</FAQ/>]]

    - [SWI-Prolog Discourse forum](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group)
    (best place to get answered for SWI-Prolog specific questions)

    - StackOverflow questions with these tags:
    [swi-prolog](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/swi-prolog),
    [prolog](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/prolog)
    (best place for issues with class room exercises that are not
    SWI-Prolog specific)

    - The Prolog IRC channel ##prolog on FreeNode
    can be accessed via [WebChat](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##prolog)

    - [SWI-Prolog issue tracker at GitHub](https://github.com/SWI-Prolog/issues/issues)
    (See [reporting a bug](<bug.html>) for guidelines about reporting
     a bug)

It usually takes about one day for a volunteer to reply to your question.
We appreciate your patience.

## Forum and mailing list

The [forum and mailing list](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group) for
SWI-Prolog is kindly hosted by [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/).
This list is used for announcements as well as questions and discussion
amoung users. On average, traffic is 5-10 messages per day. Details:

  - The forum can be viewed [here](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group)

  - It provides local accounts and login with GitHub. Other _login with_
    options will follow.

  - Please read [this
    topic](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/coming-from-google-groups/34?u=jan)
    if you want to access the forum primarily through email.

## Old mailing lists

  - Before moving to Discourse (Feb 4, 2018), SWI-Prolog discussion was
    hosted as a [Google group](http://groups.google.com/group/swi-prolog).

  - Before being moved to a Google group (May 1, 2014), the mailing list
    was kindly hosted by the University of Bonn. The archives of this
    list are still available
    [here](<https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog>).

Tip: include =SWIPL= to search the mailinglist archives.

## Related mailinglists

    * [[mailinglist for CHR][<chr_mail:>]]
    * [[mailinglist for ClioPatria][http://mailman.few.vu.nl/mailman/listinfo/cliopatria-list]]

## Other places

    - The newsgroup
    [[comp.lang.prolog][<news:comp.lang.prolog>]]
    (see also its [Google Groups archive](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.prolog))