basically a chat board for new irc relating to bitcoin or a chat boardfor new ircs for altcoins as well. I notice that bitcointalk doesn't have one and alot of people used the irc chat networks like freenode to communicate. im pretty sure it won't effect the forum because people would have to find it on the board. It would just be easier for dev deals to be made besides just using the forum plus people don't have to used irc they can just used this board or forum.