Better irc policies?

[Máirín Duffy]

On 10/14/2015 03:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:19:00AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> The only thing that concerns me is that at that point we'd have the new
>> thing, IRC, Ask, *and* the mailing lists, soon with Hyperkitty which in
>> some senses overlaps with all the others.
>
> Well, mailing lists -> hyperkitty. Ideally, The New Thing would
> completely replace IRC eventually. And, especially with how we're using
> Ask, like a web forum rather than like the Stack Exchange sites it
> superficially resembles, I'd like to eventually migrate that to
> HyperKitty too.
>

What is "The New Thing" and why is it needed?

~m