Pidgin No Longer Supports Yahoo Instant Messenger

Bug #1617841 reported by Lonnie Lee Best
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pidgin (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Yahoo instant messenger's servers keep messaging me saying (basically) that Pidgin will no longer be able to Yahoo-Instant-Message (verb intended) after August 31st 2016.

See here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/818002/pidgin-yahoo-instant-messenger-deadline

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 fully updated with Pidgin 2.10.12.

description: updated
tags: added: xenial
tags: added: yakkety
tags: added: trusty
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote :

A replacement is on its way (https://github.com/EionRobb/funyahoo-plusplus).

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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