How to shift to OFTC from Polari ?
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rocksnotstars · 2021-06-15 10:00

I was using Polari to connect to my org. They decided to shift to OFTC
.

On the [website of OFTC](https://www.oftc.net/) it says ,

>*You can reach the OFTC IRC network by using a traditional* [*IRC Cli
ent*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_
clients) *of choice*

**I am unable to figure out how to shift to OFTC ?**

Also, (noob alert!) what exactly is OFTC ? Is it an IRC ? How is it
different from other IRC's (Polari or Pidigin)

Please help me out :)

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MachaHack · 2021-06-15 11:13

There's two parts to IRC:

1. The network, which is the group of servers which the users are
connect to
2. The client, which is the program you use to connect.

Pidgin, Polari (and more popular examples like Hexchat) are all
clients.

OFTC (along with Freenode, which I guess your org is moving from) are
networks.

When you first connected to IRC, you configured a server or selected
from the list built in to your client. I guess you've been connected
to that server ever since.

This appears to be the docs for adding a new server for Polari:

https://help.gnome.org/users/polari/stable/network-connect.html.en

If you take the values from the OFTC website and put them into the
connect screen on Polari (or if there's a built in list, select OFTC
from that list), that will get you connected to OFTC. If you don't use
other channels on your old network, you can then remove the old
network afterwards, but I don't use Polari and they don't have an
online manual, so can't give you guidance there.