The Council is trying to update their communications platforms and the options were clearly stated:

- Discourse (not Discord, please notice the difference in their names) replacing ML

- Matrix replacing IRC.

In both cases the Council is looking to keep all platforms bridged or somehow communicating with the new ones.

In the particular case of this thread, Matrix has several advantages and IRC will still be keep it bridged, so from my POV we are gaining advantages and not losing anything.

Br,

Eduard Lucena