Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4787430-20131027000527/@comment-4787430-20131028230159

So, I contacted JAlbor about what would happen to the current Talk page when we switched to Message Wall, and the answer is as I thought. The Talk page will be archived automatically and it would be editable only by admins (just like the old forum archives), so redlinks, broken images, etc. could still be edited out when needed.

The way I see the addition of Wikia Chat is that if we enable it, a lot of the off-topic chit-chat that currently goes on in the forums, will be moved away from there and on to the chat. This will also alleviate a lot of the forum messages that cloud the Recent Wiki Activity feed. I think using the IRC could be more of a way to have staff meetings, rather than your everyday chat. IRC is mostly dead on a daily basis. I hardly go there anymore and when I do it's only about 2-3 people that will eventually chat.