# Should there be a Painless section of the forum?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-there-be-a-painless-section-of-the-forum/115132>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [January 11, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-there-be-a-painless-section-of-the-forum/115132 "2018-01-11T16:04:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![arisbanach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@arisbanach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arisbanach)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-there-be-a-painless-section-of-the-forum/115132/1 "2018-01-11T16:04:48Z")

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I'm wondering if the forum could use a dedicated Painless section. I'm working on learning Painless but having a lot of trouble since there isn't a ton of easy ways (from what I understand) of debugging. I think it would be a very valuable resources for people learning the language and to visit to totally immerse yourself in Painless info and questions.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-there-be-a-painless-section-of-the-forum/115132/2 "2018-01-11T23:10:51Z")

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Thanks for raising this.

We're definitely open to creating new sections if there is a need. If you don't mind, we'll see if we can get a bit more feedback on the demand for this, as we also want to balance against creating new sections that end up a bit of a ghost town 🙂

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-there-be-a-painless-section-of-the-forum/115132/3 "2018-01-12T06:55:16Z")

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I think it's totally valid to have such a dedicated forum.  
We could (if possible but may be too hard though) try to move all existing threads to this section if we create it.

[https://discuss.elastic.co/search?expanded=true&q=painless%20%23elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/search?expanded=true&q=painless%20%23elasticsearch)

I can see so many questions about this ^^^

Unless we can at some point add tags to threads, I'm +1 to create a new topic.

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**Author:** ![thiago](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thiago/32/32096_2.png) [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-there-be-a-painless-section-of-the-forum/115132/4 "2018-01-13T14:16:37Z")

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+1 to a Painless category

I can already see a few topics with title prefixed with "Painless"

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-there-be-a-painless-section-of-the-forum/115132/5 "2018-02-10T14:16:56Z")

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