That's just turning off chat history, which is confusingly also referred to as "off the record". Usually when people talk about OTR for chat, they mean client-t

That's just turning off chat history, which is confusingly also referred to as "off the record". Usually when people talk about OTR for chat, they mean client-to-client encryption, so not even the chat provider knows what the content of the chats were, analogous to using something like PGP for email.