are the yahoo chat rooms going to reopen?
451098
yeh they are back to normal again and it happened yesterday. I think there was some server upgrading thats y rooms were closed down for a while!
473659
Yes chat is available.
673966
i get the "joining a chat room took longer than expected" message every time i try to join a chat room too, so i no longer bother with it because yahoo has screwed it up.\n\nso i just go to http://www.yahoochat.com to chat now because messenger is absolute rubbish!
295479
http://www.kidscom.com/chat/kidschat/kidschat.html\n\nI used to go there when I was little... It was an HTML chat back then, but I'm sure since then it has gotten better. :) there is a moderator in there at all times.
72642
With the internet being ever evolving, I highly doubt that things will ever return to the way they were.  I wish they had the user chatrooms too but aparently, someone in the office didnt like them.
529282
go to an asian chat room.
658416
I believe chat2.0 is java based, and yahoo took away the java support about a month ago.l
1068608
i don't know of any other chat environment but i heard they closed the user rooms because of obscene content and the high content of child pornography.
153810
If you are using Yahoo, it's because they have been having technical difficulties for a few days now.  :(\n\nThey have said that they are aware of the problem and are working to correct it ASAP.
669983
u cant get in yahoo chat rooms if you are younger than 18\nif you are already older than 18..i dunno why you cant
448814
Yahoo! User-created chat rooms are no longer available.  According to Yahoo's chat log in page: \n\n"The ability to publish user-created chat rooms in the public Yahoo! Chat directory is currently unavailable. We are working on improvements to this service to enhance the user experience and compliance with our Terms of Service" \n\nYahoo! chat users can view this notice by logging in to Yahoo! Chat via your web browser, and navigating to the chat listings. Once in the listings, click on the "user rooms" link. A screen shot of this notice is available, click here -> http://www.chatmag.com/news/yahoo_chat.jpg. \n\nIn recent years, the Yahoo! chat rooms have been inundated by "ad bots", automated programs that deluge users with private messages containing links to commercial web sites. Online predators have also utilized the Yahoo! chat rooms, seeking children for real or online encounters. \n\nPetitions to Yahoo! to create moderators, or chat room operators have been submitted to Yahoo!,  with no positive results from the Yahoo! staff. \n\nSeveral online vigilante groups, most notably Perverted-Justice.com have also used the Yahoo! chat rooms seeking "wannabe" online predators, and in most cases, publishing transcripts of private conversations conducted within Yahoo! chat. The closure of the user created chat rooms will in effect stop Perverted-Justice.com from operating within Yahoo! chat. \n\nThis closure of the user created chat rooms is system wide, in all Yahoo! chat categories. No further information is available at this time.
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the user rooms are being misued like forcing children for sex.\nsome concerned groups sued yahoo for not monitoring........for more information check these articles\n \nhttp://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=7600&title=Yahoo!%20Closes%20User%20Created%20Chat%20Rooms.\nhttp://www.betanews.com/article/Yahoo_Shutters_User_Chat_Rooms/1119538447
364908
The internet provider might have restricted you to access Yahoo Chat rooms !!!
1018560
May need to reinstall Yahoo Chat.
523090
Due to the nature of online predators, the user rooms will never re-open again. This follows in the footsteps of MSN chat rooms which closed a few years earlier.
109817
The answer: Yahoo! no longer allows access to the chat rooms for people under 18 years old. When I went to the chat site, it said that I couldn't because I was under 18.\nI think I read that they are doing it to cut down on child predators. Really a good thing, actually.
65248
Yahoo shut down its user-created chat rooms after a TV station reported that some of them were being used by adults to promote sex with kids. This happened about half a year ago.