I’ve been using v9* since it was released publicly. I hate the UI skins with a passion. I really wish they’d offer an option to default to the native UI.

Why do some users want to see who is invisible anyway? What’s the point of spying? When I am on invisible it is for a reason, I don’t want to be seen and messaged. I’m glad any methods to try and detect this are hit-and-miss and I hope Yahoo makes it more difficult.

My guess is slimnshady247 is referring to chat room drama. In particular it sounds like something a “booter” would say.

One reason why I stopped frequenting the chat rooms. A lot of the users are just f***ed up. It was unbearable for me long before the spam bots became a problem.

Every script kiddie (and there sure seemed to be a ton of ’em) with fantasies of dominance and power tried booting or disrupting a room in some fashion or another. Even among “regulars,” a mere difference of opinion on a topic seems to result in one party trying to boot another, and everything turns into a perpetual script kiddie troll-fest. The disappointing thing is that this behavior was not limited to any specific age group.

I don’t even want to get started on the socially inept losers who take time and money to create and maintain those generic PHP-Nuke booter sites… and those rap songs about booting they have, wow, just wow, it is extremely pathetic.

However, in all fairness this behaviour is not isolated to Yahoo. It’s a result of people abusing online anonymity. Most people wouldn’t sign their name to the crap they say or do online.

Sorry for ranting, but I’m sure at least a few people share the same sentiments.

I tried two clients concurrently. What seems to work well for me is Yahelite. It gets me into a chat room relatively quickly. I tried the same room with Y! Messenger several times and it wouldn’t enter chat at all, except once after a very long wait.

I don’t use chat rooms regularly so it’s not a big deal for me, but never mind taking long to join a chat room, it’s not joining at all now. The client is not even receiving a rooms/categories list anymore. It’s been like that the last three times I’ve attempted to use a chat room.

I know Yahoo doesn’t owe anyone anything since their chat rooma are a free service, but they’re alienating their chat user base by essentially locking them out of rooms. I imagine many people are going to get fed up with long waits to get in (if at all) and either stop using chat rooms or find alternative services.