Can't connect to Yahoo IM using Pidgin suddenly this morning? Here's why.
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8853
It seems that Yahoo has decided to slowly retire the protocol version used by Pidgin. There is also a bug in libpurple causing it only uses the first login server returned by the query. Some time yesterday evening Yahoo deprecated the old login protocols on that first server returned.
As a workaround, you can change the "pager server" field under your Yahoo account's advanced tab to 66.163.181.179, which is a known working server at this time. It seems they upgraded that server too. Go to http://pidgin.im to get the latest version that fixes this ...
