This article explains that you will be unable to view profiles in Yahoo! Chat Rooms , or the Yahoo! Messenger Contact List, when selecting the View Profile

In order to better focus on providing great new features for Yahoo! Messenger, we discontinued some Messenger services, including public chat rooms , on December 14, 2012....

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Yahoo! Messenger Public Chat Rooms -- The Yahoo! Messenger Public Chat Rooms will close down on December 14, 2012.

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