Is it just me?

[mdlbear]

... or has anyone else been having trouble connecting to Yahoo Messenger in the last couple of days?

I've checked, and I can still log in on yahoo.com and flikr.com; my password hasn't changed. I'm using pidgin, for what it's worth; Adium on the mac seems to have the same problem.

ETA: it's mysterious, but yahoo has a fix posted

replacing scs.msg.yahoo.com as the server in the Pidgin accounts setup with the IP address of a Yahoo server, say, 66.163.181.189, fixes it. You can choose any of the yahoo servers below:

66.163.181.179 - 66.163.181.180 - 66.163.181.181 - 66.163.181.182 - 66.163.181.183 - 66.163.181.166 - 66.163.181.167 - 66.163.181.168 - 66.163.181.169 .......... etc. ...170....171....172...

Then simply disable your Yahoo account after doing the replacement, and then re-enable it and it will work.