These past few days I've had issues connecting to Yahoo! Messenger with Pidgin. Getting a bit fed-up, I decided to check the Pidgin bug tracker to see if there was solution in the works.

Indeed, the answer to my connection issue was pretty simple. As referenced in ticket #8853, chaging the Paging Server for Yahoo!  under the advanced account options worked for me. I changed it to this:

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