AOL outages and service status in Penzance, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Penzance, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Penzance, 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

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  𐡀 (@Xyleniqq) reported 7 minutes ago

  My 86 year-old father called me at 2 AM because he accidentally joined a Discord server and thought he was being "recruited by the internet." I answered the phone half asleep. "They're in the computer," he said. "Who's in the computer?" "The voices. There are young people. They're talking. I think I've been hacked." I sat up. "Dad, what are you talking about?" "I clicked something and now there's a room full of people and they keep saying my name." My blood pressure spiked. I thought maybe he'd stumbled into some kind of scam call center or ransomware situation. "Don't click anything else," I said. "I'm coming over." I drove twenty minutes to his house at 2:30 in the morning. When I walked in, he was sitting at his computer, headphones around his neck, looking absolutely terrified. "They know I'm here," he whispered. I looked at the screen. He had somehow joined a Discord server called "Chill Vibes Gaming." There were about forty people in a voice channel. And in the chat, someone had typed: "Yo who is CrazyDave1938 and why is he breathing so loud?" CrazyDave1938 was my father. "Dad, how did you even get here?" "I was trying to download solitaire." "THIS ISN'T SOLITAIRE." "I KNOW THAT NOW." Apparently, he clicked an ad, which led to a download, which installed Discord, which auto-connected him to some random public server. And he'd been sitting in a voice chat for forty-five minutes, not speaking, just listening. The people in the chat were confused but remarkably patient. One of them typed: "CrazyDave, are you okay? Blink twice if you need help." My father had no camera on, so blinking was not an option. I leaned over and typed: "Sorry, this is his son. He's 86 and very confused. He thought this was solitaire." The chat exploded. "LMAOOO." "Protect CrazyDave at all costs." "Dave you're a legend." Someone changed his server nickname to "Grandpa Dave." My father looked at me, bewildered. "Are they laughing at me?" "They love you." He squinted at the screen. "What is this place?" "It's like a chat room." "Like AOL?" "Sure, Dad. Like AOL." He thought about it for a second. "Can I stay?" I stared at him. "You want to stay in the gaming Discord?" "They seem nice. That one called me a legend." I didn't know what to say. I helped him figure out how to mute himself, showed him how to leave and rejoin, and drove home. That was three months ago. He's still in the server. He logs in every night around 8 PM and just listens. Occasionally he types things like "Good game everyone" even though he's never played anything. Last week someone made him a moderator as a joke. He took it very seriously. He now removes "inappropriate language" and once banned someone for "being rude to a young lady." The server has doubled in size. Half the new members joined specifically because they heard about Grandpa Dave. My father has become a Discord celebrity at 86 years old. He still doesn't know what Discord is. He calls it "the solitaire room." I've stopped correcting him.

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  WRIGHT3OUS (@WRIGHT3OUS___) reported 8 minutes ago

  @justavictim1182 @JPDenaliRocket The worst thing to happen to wrestling was aol. Steady decline

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  twicemeles (@twicemeles) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Owliellder Only one I never witnessed as AOL. I wasn't allowed. I am creaking.

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  Rob Tammaro (@rtam24) reported 15 minutes ago

  AOL would never post this

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  Jacob Navok (@JNavok) reported 16 minutes ago

  1.) Buy company 2.) Leadership, strategy and priorities change based on market changes because market is not static 3.) Have bad takes about this written on twitter WB went from independent studio to Time Warner to AOL Time Warner to ATT to Discovery to the Ellisons. These things happen in business because the market changes.

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  Downthenose (@downthenos53590) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Rambrero1 @pantherkat @AOL I'm talking about a complete douchebag and the people who support him, you are bitching about your mail being down for an hour or two. Big difference. That man destroys everything he touches! My kids can't even afford to buy a house on two incomes!

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  sibare boolay Jr (@sibareboolayJr) reported 17 minutes ago

  Do not use @burner it is slower than AOL. Worst app I’ve ever used

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  Mike Cecconi (@Cecconi140) reported 18 minutes ago

  The saddest thing is when the cheap ugly insulting lazy AI slop ad tells you "support local" or "thank you for supporting local" when they refused to hire a local graphic designer to use an AOL chatbot that just polluted their own water. Madness.

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  Drew (@Drosent23) reported 19 minutes ago

  @a_g_haubner A solution to what? What do you want a WNBA commissioner to do about online trolls? That's been a thing since AOL and it's usually just immature people just trolling. Do you thinks trolls would listen to Cathy?

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  Greg Cappel (@GregCappel) reported 21 minutes ago

  @JeremiahDJohns I had to pay my parents so much money for going over my 5 hours a month. Damn AOL chat rooms were addictive in HS!