AOL outages and service status in Settle, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Settle, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Settle, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 5 minutes ago

  Researchers tracked 344,753 websites over 18 months to map where American attention actually goes online. The answer is email. Gmail alone is 16% of all desktop time. Add Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL, and inboxes eat nearly a quarter of every hour Americans spend at a computer. That's double the combined total of Facebook, X, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and WhatsApp. The legacy numbers are the wild part. Yahoo Mail, at 3.71%, gets more attention than ChatGPT, Reddit, and Netflix combined. AOL Mail, a service most people assume died with dial-up, beats Instagram and Discord combined. Yahoo still has roughly 225 million active mail users, skewing Gen X and Boomer: people who opened an account in 1999 and never saw a reason to leave. Google Search sits at just 2.33%. The front door of the entire internet gets less time than Yahoo's inbox, because search is engineered to end fast. Every second you spend on a results page is a second Google failed. The chart measures desktop, which explains the shape. Your phone is where you play. Your computer is where you work. And the work of being an American in 2026, the bills, the receipts, the school notices, the job applications, still runs through a protocol invented in 1971. Strip away 30 years of apps and the desktop internet is a post office with better graphics.

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  Weston Rosch (@rosch_weston) reported 6 minutes ago

  Who ******** is using AOL Mail

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  Dan דן (@dan_araz) reported 12 minutes ago

  @claudeai Why not for us that don’t spend $1200 a year? Why put us thru a meter like AOL in the old days when parents opened their phone bills and went bananas. And all that for a mythos lite which is what fable is. You’re pushing people away. To quote your own Claude in an interaction w me: “Makes sense as a complaint — Fable being the restricted, safety-hardened variant of the same underlying model is exactly why “why not just give me the real thing” feels reasonable.”

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  The Digital Archaeologist (@TheDataTomb) reported 14 minutes ago

  The only problem I have with X is that I never feel like I’m genuinely talking to people or replying/getting replies from real people. I wish it felt like the old days in AOL chat rooms where it felt like real people surrounded our conversations. It feels all botted and AI now.

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  Chris Farrell (@chrispfarrell) reported 15 minutes ago

  I think OpenAI and Anthropic might be the CompuServe and AOL of the AI era. Does anyone actually think Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, X/Twitter, and all of the other big tech companies will just allow these 2 badly run startups to capture the AI market? OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat or sustainable competitive advantage. To win they have to not only develop a moat but penetrate some of the most fortified moats. Model quality isn't a moat. Kimi, Grok, Deepseek proved that. Inference will become a commodity utility that requires massive CapEx that neither can finance. Interface is where the moat is the weakest. OpenAI and Anthropic do not own the apps or the OS. The OS and apps are owned by parties who view OpenAI or Anthropic as threats, and they can complicate things very easily. As if that is not grim enough, AI sovereignty will become an issue. Consumers will want their iCloud data to stay in iCloud, their OneDrive data to stay in OneDrive, etc. Enterprise customers will want AI from their cloud providers to reduce egress and for performance + IP reasons. It is honestly hard to imagine a world where OpenAI and Anthropic survive as they are. They will either morph into companies with entirely different value offerings or die like Compuserve and AOL.

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  John Smith (@JohnSmithdqlo) reported 18 minutes ago

  @cmsinvests MSFT can never fail right? Just like AOL and Yahoo. Guaranteed to outperform the index in 40 years.

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  Global Utopia Sports (@GL8BAL_SPORTS) reported 18 minutes ago

  Likes have been limited + erased for days I can't catch up & of course help service is down. The worst ran social media i ever seen. Ive used every one since MySpace. I'm 1 of the 1st ever to merge sports & internet in the world going back to AOL never seen anything like this bs

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  Del Leonard Jones (@jonesdel) reported 18 minutes ago

  @chamath Frontier models are headed down the AOL road. The question is, when Anthropic and OpenAI fail, who gets dragged down with them? What companies do well? Nvidia? Hyperscalers?

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  Param Reddy (@ParamRReddy) reported 20 minutes ago

  @TimSweeneyEpic @deanwball we can also substitute microsoft claiming open source is dangerous because instead of windows regulating the compute, oss linux is enabling compute for everyone and could result in bad actors getting access to unregulated compute. aol can say same about open internet.

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  GL | kRaZeYdRe (@kRaZeYdReMoBiLe) reported 20 minutes ago

  @brockpierson No never heard of it. I used yahoo, sbcyahoo , aol, and I think that's all they had back in my days lol