It's always a joy to see newcomers to the REBOL language. You may be one of them and if so, welcome! We don't serve any beverages or ask you to sit in a comfy chair, but we hope you'll come to enjoy the language as much as we do. Unfortunately there are separated pockets of users in different places, mainly shaped by the communication form and ease of access. There isn't really one universally accepted place to hang out. But these places are where there is some action:

http://www.reboltalk.com

This is a regular web forum, the easiest to access, but does currently only have little activity and is plagued by spammers. Just register and start posting! The author of REBOL, Carl Sassenrath sometimes takes a peek in here to answer questions for new users.

The Mailing List

The mailing list is a third party managed list by the people at rebol.org. It's my impression that this format is what most people prefer and a lot of interesting and heavy discussions can happen there. I look in on this list from time to time, but may sometimes experience down-time problems. This is usually because of the ISP, rather than the rebol.org maintainers.

You can search and read the mailing list archive at rebol.org. To sign up, read the instructions here.

AltME

This is a highly efficient persistent real time group chat system similar to IRC, but made entirely in REBOL. The system is divided into "chat worlds", where one of these worlds is called "REBOL3". It's called that, not because of the new version of REBOL coming out, but for other historic reasons too detailed to get into here. You can read more about it here.

This is where I hang out the most as well as most of the REBOL Technologies. All sorts of discussions happen here and given the persistency (you don't loose a message, even if you're logged out), it provides a nice and simple way to carry conversations across many days in IRC or instant messaging style, plus it's very stable. It is managed by Safeworlds Inc. The downside to it (some consider it an advantage), is it's darknet nature; It's closed off and invite only, but you can read some of the groups from the REBOL3 world here.

Being a darknet helps keeps the noise down and the spam level is zero, but makes it a bit harder to access initially, if you don't know how. Fortunately it's easy to get an invitation and they will let anybody in.

How to get an invitation:

1. Prepare your information: The sign up process requires your: 1. full name, 2. your wanted nick name and 3. your email address to send the login information to. If these things aren't posted, no sign up will happen. Simple as that.
2. Either post this information on my contact page, and I will forward your request to the administrators. If I don't receive it (this is email you know), post it again in a few days.
3. Or post this information on the mailing list mentioned above and someone there will do the same.
4. Expect a waiting time of 24-48 hours, as this is done manually.
5. When it's done you should receive an invite email with username and password.

What is common for all of them: There are many nice and scarily skilled people there. And then there's me. Ask them a REBOL question! They may have an answer for you.