Sure it did. Our company chat was XMPP 10 years ago and pidgin was one of the most widely used clients. I assume it's just the experimental version that doesn't support it yet.
Nowadays we use zulip at work which has a better model (topics). For IRC I use quassel because I can have the backend running on a server and when I connect using the frontend I see the channel history and messages I might have received weeks ago...
Nowadays we use zulip at work which has a better model (topics). For IRC I use quassel because I can have the backend running on a server and when I connect using the frontend I see the channel history and messages I might have received weeks ago...