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Stack exchange websites such as this are clearly intended for cut and dried math questions and answers, and loosely framed or open-ended questions are given short shrift and soon closed down by ever vigilant moderators, and I suspect even this meta-question will be frowned upon!

This is fine in its way, but are there websites where thoughts on or suggestions for possible approaches to open problems can be discussed?

Usenet groups such as sci.math used to be just the ticket for this purpose, but alas in recent years these, certainly the unmoderated groups, have been overrun by spam and presumably forsaken by knowledgeable contributors, and their entropy quotient is now close to unity!

John R Ramsden
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    Do you actually find that your questions get closed? I ask because "possible approaches to open problems" are absolutely on-topic on this website. The only things I'd add are 1) people like to see some effort on your part in terms of attempting to solve the problem, and 2) you can also consider MathOverflow for open problems, though discussion in that community is at a higher (read: professional) level than here. – Novice Sep 25 '20 at 23:03
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    Related: this meta question – ə̷̶̸͇̘̜́̍͗̂̄︣͟ Sep 26 '20 at 09:33
  • Why didn't you ask this meta-question on meta? – J.-E. Pin Sep 30 '20 at 05:06

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