AOL outages and service status in Chester, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Chester, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Chester, 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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  CyberTLDR (@CyberTLDR) reported 2 minutes ago

  2/3 PortSwigger's Gareth Heyes showed it at Black Hat. One Outlook chain spoofs a Microsoft sign in and grabs the typed password. A Yahoo/AOL paste race leaks a login token. A Gmail chain exfiltrates a Slack token after prompt injection. #InfoSec #Privacy #CyberAttack

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  kpmaloyauthor (@kpmaloyauthor) reported 6 minutes ago

  @NikoleCallihan I never had an AOL address. lol

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  Mike Roberts (@Mikey_A_Roberts) reported 10 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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  Beth Fogle (@fogle003) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I never had an AOL address 🤪

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  Randall (@iamtandyfox) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I’ve never had an AOL account!

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  KeiSian (@blkmage) reported 12 minutes ago

  @aaliyahvtuber_ 19. Never actually logged in using AOL.

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  JackiO (@Jackio49) reported 16 minutes ago

  @oelma__ 19, never had AOL, didn't like waterbeds. lol

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  Aremu Azeez (@aremz04) reported 18 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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  tmnxeq (@tmnxeq) reported 19 minutes ago

  @0xljki obviously there was demand for bandwidth in '99, most people or businesses had none (this is kinda binary and you had to lay pipes throughout the whole country) operationally, this was a high margin business - you lay the pipe once (expensive capex) & but then can AOL CDs to every households, with virtually no marginal cost for addtl customer. "compute buyers have high margins" - brother what have you been smoking. xAI (admittedly now a compute seller) is losing gazillions - maybe that's why they went from buying/producing compute to selling. OAI/ANT have no published financials but spoiler, they are losing billions per year 1/2

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  jjc1234 (@jjc123424) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19 - never had an aol account