AOL outages and service status in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Problems in the last 24 hours in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Chapel Hill, North Carolina 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 Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Chapel Hill and nearby locations:

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  Ross Grady (@rossgrady) reported 6 minutes ago from Durham, North Carolina

  Hail all the streaming platforms whose entire business model is to get ppl signed up for a free trial to watch the one movie that isn’t available elsewhere, and then continue to bill the 57% of people who forget to cancel. Congratulations, y’all are the AOL of the 21st Century.

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  Willyoncé (@willyonce99) reported 31 minutes ago from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

  Them AOL Live sessions NEVER disappointed🙌🏾😩. ‘Tasia did what she had to do!!!

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  KC Hysmith (@kchysmith) reported 49 minutes ago from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

  But there is a good digital user because there's also a bad digital user, says @tressiemcphd. This user has satellite internet because of lack of service or rural location. They don't have gmail, they have...the crowd gasps...AOL!

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  méli mélo (@PulsePersephone) reported 3 minutes ago

  In like 1997 an adult man found my AOL profile and emailed me just to tell me that I seemed very stupid and and that all my interests were stupid and I emailed him back that I was sorry but that I was 14 and that might have something to do with it.

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  Milan (@milanm_) reported 5 minutes ago

  For people with newsletters - do you get more spam reports from AOL/Yahoo users? I have a user which hit mark as spam 3 times in the last month or so, but is still using the product. People tell me that's "normal" for AOL/Yahoo users, that some of them treat mark as spam button as a delete button. How to handle this? Disabling the user?

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  Will Huhges (@willhuhges) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Loganlovesgh Oh there are some real beauties out there. I haven't seen anything quite as bad as the old AOL soap message boards yet but it's only a matter of time!😩

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  Moe of No Words Barred Podcast (@MoeBeKnowin) reported 7 minutes ago

  I’ll never forget AOL 4.0 that supported “broadband” internet. That version was a changer.

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  f_marzotto (@f_marzotto) reported 8 minutes ago

  $BSP is a masterpiece. Just not of innovation. Working in Big Tech, you get used to seeing what actual scale and innovation look like. So watching Italy crown Bending Spoons as its great tech champion - a team that buys beloved, declining brands like AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, and Meetup to "revive" them - has been fascinating. Their $18 billion IPO is largely deserved: they are exceptional operators. They make neglected software fast and profitable. The machine works. But there are two things you can do to a fading product. You can make it modern and profitable again - or you can make it win again, attracting new people who genuinely love it. Bending Spoons does the first brilliantly. The second, almost never. Their own SEC prospectus reveals the trick. Organic growth was 13% last year, and just 6% last quarter. Net revenue retention is 94%, meaning each cohort of users is worth less a year later, even after aggressive price hikes. This isn't a base being won back; it's a base leaking quietly, taxed harder on the way out. This is exactly why comparing them to Big Tech is so revealing. Picture $META putting WhatsApp or Instagram behind a paywall tomorrow. There would be a global uproar. Meta has the most locked-in audience on Earth, yet they refuse to charge them. Why? Because they are still chasing growth. Bending Spoons charges its captive audiences precisely because it has no growth left to protect. They execute the exact playbook that would make Meta a supervillain, but on smaller apps with weaker exits - and we call it genius. The reviled villain treats its users better than the celebrated innovator. A true maker earns its price by building something genuinely better; you pay because you want to stay. Bending Spoons didn't build these products; braver people did. They buy them when they are loved and hard to quit, and turn them into extraction machines. They are professional converters of makers into takers. Charging people because they want to stay makes everyone richer. Charging them because they can't leave just moves money from users to shareholders. One is a gain for the world. The other is a transfer. And every switch they flip is one more bill on people already drowning in subscriptions, asked to pay again for what they once had free. Of course, the business works. Rent extraction is the safest business on earth: low risk, fast payback, nothing to invent. But compare that to actual innovation. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, he took real risk on things that didn't exist yet: Tesla forced open the EV industry, SpaceX made rockets reusable, and each time the rest of the world had to follow. He earned his success by growing the pie; Bending Spoons pours the same ingenuity into nag screens and cancellation mazes, carving up a pie someone else baked. Let's not call a toll booth a cathedral. Celebrate rent-collection as innovation, and we teach our best makers to optimize the past instead of building the future.

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  Sandy Kory (@sandykory) reported 10 minutes ago

  I haven’t been buying the "SaaSpocalypse," but Q1’s nosediving SaaS valuations gave me pause. After a week in SF last month sampling the AI zeitgeist, I have a better feel for where the software sector is heading. It’s the SaaS-to-inference transition, and it’s good. My long-standing view has been that AI is a net positive for the software industry. It radically raises the ceiling for what software products can do. It should dramatically expand the market opportunity for software, just like the on-prem-to-cloud transition did back in the day. Yet many have been freaking out. After all, haven’t SaaS switching costs come down dramatically in SaaS, threatening one of the pillars of the business model? Yes, there’s no doubt that the “cement around the ankles” of legacy SaaS has weakened. At the same time, most legacy SaaS companies have barely scratched the surface of AI innovation while maintaining their historically high retention. This is how it played out in the last major transition: on-prem-to-cloud. Many legacy players (pathetically) ignored cloud innovation for 5-10 years (or longer) and still kept their customers. It turns out that technology is stickier than most in the tech industry believe. Take a look at Bending Spoons, which IPO’d off the back of buying crappy legacy products and jacking up prices because users didn’t want to give up their AOL email or Evernote notes. Tech industry people are not like this. They tend to be part of the very small minority of early adopters. Most people aren’t like this. Neither are most organizations. Legacy software isn’t going to disappear. But if pre-AI software companies don’t embrace AI innovation, their customers will be much less forgiving than on-prem customers 10-20 years ago. AI capabilities are too potent and obviously beneficial. What does embracing AI innovation look like? It means layering intelligent actions into all software. Historically, great software has helped users follow the right workflow. Now, great software must do the workflow by triggering agents to take actions. In other words, inference. The great news for everyone is that this opens the door to consumption-based pricing models that can scale exponentially. For legacy players and startups alike, delivering amazing AI-powered, agentic features is the way to get on the vertical-growth train. Remarkably, the door is still open for legacy players. Intercom’s 3.6b exit to Salesforce is a great example. Of course, new pricing models mean new margin structures. Just as SaaS had lower gross margins than legacy on-prem, expect consumption-priced inference to have lower gross margins. This is OK! We’ve already seen massive wins for inference-selling startups with negative gross margins, like Cursor. Legacy SaaS companies need to find religion on this. Dropping margins is never easy. Lock up the finance team if you have to. The priority is delivering AI-powered value for customers. Everything else is just details.

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  Jon M. Taggart (@jonmtaggart) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 19 for me. Never had an AOL address.

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  Stock Analysis (@stock_analysisx) reported 13 minutes ago

  Market Bullets 📊 Bending Spoons jumps in IPO: $BSP (Bending Spoons), which owns AOL, Vimeo, and others, surged 40% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $1.68 billion. Meta's new cloud business: $META (Meta Platforms Inc.) plans to sell excess AI computing capacity through a new cloud business, creating a potential revenue stream to offset heavy infrastructure spending and compete with major cloud providers. OpenAI pitches federal stake: OpenAI has reportedly proposed providing the U.S. government a 5% equity stake and urged other AI firms to do the same. SpaceX unveils AI device prototype: $SPCX (SpaceX Corp.) allegedly showed investors a slim handset-like AI device prototype that integrates xAI tech and runs a proprietary operating system. The project is early-stage, though Elon Musk denied the report. Jobs growth misses expectations: The U.S. economy gained 57K jobs in June, missing estimates of 115K — and down from 129K jobs in May. April and May totals were revised down by 74K. Still, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.3% to 4.2%.

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  Novel Ninja | Catholic Geek (@thenovelninja) reported 15 minutes ago

  Mel misses the point, perhaps even by sincere error. It's not nostalgia for limited programs. I'm sure there are some people who want to go back to AOL, but that's not the point. It's that we have come to recognize that being parked in front of a screen for most of the day is bad for even an adult, much less a child. So many of us are nostalgic for a day when we weren't online all the time. Personally, I'm also old enough to remember when I was called socially deficient for reading all the time, just because my books were more interesting than my peers. I was in eighth grade before I found friends who liked even some of what I enjoyed. Being online isn't automatically bad, but if you don't exercise self-control you'll find it controls you. That's being terminally online -- when it defines you, more than anything else.

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  doniprophecy (@doniprophecy) reported 16 minutes ago

  @poe_real69 The bull case is that ETH is too big to fail — and too slow to succeed. It's the AOL of crypto. When's the last time you actually used it?