Anyone else unhappy what has happened to yahoo messenger and all the bots now?

Yeah, the bots have filled up every room and legitimate users can no longer get access. You just get a message saying "Communications Problem" when you try to enter a chat room. Every room is shown as being full. There must be a way to filter the bots out, but Yahoo is clearly not interested in maintaining this free service. Its unfortunate because I enjoyed using Yahoo chat to contact folks with similar interestst to mine. Now it is just a frustrating and irrtiating experience to try to access a chat room.