AOL outages and service status in Congleton, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Congleton, England

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Congleton and nearby locations:

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  Daniel JB (@Danjblake68) reported 40 seconds ago from Holmes Chapel, England

  @AOLSupportHelp is the WiFi down currently?

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Roughneck (@Roughneck4795) reported 1 minute ago

  Yeah I still use an AOL email from 20 years ago… got a problem with that??

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  Cajun ****** ☭🇵🇸🍉 (@Noodoggy) reported 3 minutes ago

  @HorrorGorl Can't help it. It's ingrained from 30 years ago in AOL chat rooms lol

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  Paul R Cavanaugh (@PauliCavanaugh) reported 6 minutes ago

  @dotkrueger You people are acting like the fanatics who occupied the last days of every bubble in history. I remember seeing the same lunatics saying AOL stock would rise to $1000 and beyond around 1999. "It's all different now stupid!" I know many of you are on margin. You'll not recover from this.

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  H. Jones Jr. (@hjjr38) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ATT your fiber internet is a goddam disgrace! I had better service AOL dial up in 1995

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  David Bearman (@DavidBearman) reported 16 minutes ago

  I had to call a business, while in car, this morning and got a busy signal. The look on my 12-yr old’s face… he had never heard that noise before. Wait until I play him the AOL dial up noise

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  Aremu Azeez (@aremz04) reported 19 minutes ago

  There's a line in The Lean Startup that stung when I read it last week: "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. Eric Ries tells the story of IMVU's first product. His team spent six months building an instant-messaging add-on, based on a genuinely smart-sounding strategy: piggyback on existing IM networks (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN), ride their network effects, spread virally through people's existing friend lists. Whiteboard-brilliant. They launched. Nobody used it. When they finally sat real customers down in front of the product, every assumption fell apart. Customers weren't scared of learning new software - the average teenager ran eight IM clients at once. They didn't want to chat with existing friends through avatars - they wanted to meet strangers. The "obvious" barrier the whole strategy was built around wasn't a barrier at all. Ries's point isn't "test more." It's sharper than that: in a startup, any effort that doesn't produce evidence about what customers actually want is waste - no matter how well it's executed. He calls the real version of this validated learning, to separate it from the after-the-fact story you tell yourself when something doesn't work. I'm sitting in a smaller version of that exact test right now with Owoye. One of the assumptions baked into the product is that WhatsApp and IG sellers want their invoices auto-matched to incoming payments. It sounds obviously useful from where I sit. But that's precisely the position IMVU's team was in - certain, and wrong, about what would remove friction for their customer. So this week will not be spent refining the feature. It will be spent in conversations with actual sellers, watching how they track who's paid right now - screenshots, memory, WhatsApp scrollback - before deciding whether "auto-match" solves their problem or just mine. The uncomfortable question worth asking about your own product this week: is the thing you're building solving a problem your customer has, or a problem you have with how your customer works?

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  Mike Roberts (@Mikey_A_Roberts) reported 20 minutes ago

  NEVER Once did I EVER have AOL Account.... I didn't have an Email until I was 20 Why? Because **** people that's why...

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  The Edge Guy (@plaz28) reported 20 minutes ago

  230 people. One inflatable boat. New record. The dinghy was already carrying 50 people when it stopped to pick up more — around 30 fell into the water during the scramble to board. French rescuers watched it leave “buckling under the swell.” It broke the previous record of 165, set just last month. Here’s the number nobody’s posting today: total Channel crossings in 2026 are down 43% from this time last year. Fewer boats. More people crammed into each one. The smugglers didn’t lose the trade — they just made the math worse per boat. (ITV / AOL, Aug 10, 2026)

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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 21 minutes ago

  A programmer built a database because software on a US Navy destroyer could not afford to lose its connection. Today that tiny database sits inside every iPhone, Android phone, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, and most people have never heard his name. His name is D. Richard Hipp. The database is SQLite. In 2000, Hipp was helping build software for the USS Oscar Austin, a guided-missile destroyer. The program helped sailors respond when the ship was damaged. If a pipe burst, it could find the valves sailors needed to close, the other valves they needed to open, and exactly where each one was located. During a real attack, this could mean smoke, flooding, broken pipes, and people trying to keep the ship alive. All that information was stored inside an Informix database. When the database server worked, everything was fine. But sometimes the server went down. Sailors would open the damage-control program and get a message saying it could not connect to the database. Hipp’s team did not control the server. They still got blamed because their software showed the error. Hipp started asking a simple question: Why did the program need a database server at all? It only needed to read information from the ship’s computer. Why could it not pull that data directly from the disk? Then government funding paused, leaving Hipp without contract work for a few months. So he built the database himself. SQLite had no separate server to connect to. No administrator had to keep it running. The entire database could live inside one file, and the application could read that file directly. If the computer was working, the database was working. The Navy kept Informix as its official system, but Hipp’s team began using SQLite for development and testing. Then Hipp released it on the internet. Someone managed to run a full SQL database on a Palm Pilot. Motorola called and paid him to improve it for a new phone operating system. AOL wanted it because it needed a database small enough to fit on its installation CDs. Then Mozilla, Symbian, Adobe, Google, and countless other companies followed. When Android began shipping SQLite on millions of phones, users found bugs Hipp had never seen before. So he spent about a year working 60-hour weeks to bring it up to aviation-style testing standards. Today SQLite estimates that more than one trillion active databases may exist across the world. They store browser history, messages, settings, contacts, app data, and countless other pieces of our digital lives. The database created because a warship could not trust a server became the database billions of devices trust when no server exists.

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  Evadne Firenze (@EvadneFirenze) reported 22 minutes ago

  @GTeafor2 @MDymore @AOL Yes, I think Queen Elizabeth sent a separate invitation outside the general one for the rest of the family. They did turn her down.