Web forums, Q&A sites, and discussion boards

Let's go straight to where online life happens. We will start with forums.

Internet forums, or web forums, offer easy and user-friendly access to discussion and support groups. Initially, LaTeX was a topic in subforums of more general computer forums, among other software. After LaTeX became more and more popular, specific LaTeX websites were founded, some of which we will be discussing in the following sections.

LaTeX.org

Launched in January 2007, the web forum https://latex.org/ was the first web forum dedicated to LaTeX. It's split into various subforums, each dealing with a particular LaTeX topic, such as Math and Science or Fonts and Character Sets, with a certain LaTeX distribution or a specific LaTeX editor.

Participating is as easy as in any other web forum. You don't need to register for reading, as it's freely available. Just for writing, you need to register once, choosing a login name and a...