AOL outages and service status in Olde West Chester, Ohio

Problems in the last 24 hours in Olde West Chester, Ohio

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

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  Andreux👨🏿‍💻 (@and_reux) reported 5 minutes ago

  a researcher just showed CSS alone can escape the boundaries of an email and mess with the webmail interface itself across Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton, Yahoo, AOL: fake login screens, stolen tokens, hijacked UI actions, even manipulated AI assistants that read your inbox. no JS required

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  Aremu Azeez (@aremz04) reported 6 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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  perry⭐️🪽 (@truebluedyke) reported 7 minutes ago

  them talking in aol chatrooms and sending each other gore sites and live link **** and being freaky gore lovers together 🫡🫡🫡🫡

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  Xehemang (@Xehemang26) reported 7 minutes ago

  @ANI Why you giving space to this stupid buffoon. He is just ignorant aol.

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  Mad Mac's rambles (@11Bveteran1992) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Mokimolewds 19 Never had AOL

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  Patrick Hill (@llihkcirtap) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19 of 20, never had an AOL address

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  Melody McCloud, M.D. (@DrMelodyMcCloud) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AOL I'm having so many glitches when typing emails!! Is something happening within the AOL software? Mercury is not even still in Retrograde, but I'm checking what I've typed many times because of these highlighting, moving, glitches. Help, please.

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  Trevor Long (@TrevorL415) reported 14 minutes ago

  @MeikaRei @KPHagain Lol. We didn't have squat like that during old school AOL & all my old content and chats way back when. We all know you never know Jack Squat or the reality of anything.

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  retired (@Helbreak07) reported 17 minutes ago

  @LuluTeala 19. It was AOL for me. I got a water bed in 2006 when I rented a cheap furnished apartment in Alaska. I ended up sleeping on the couch, couldn't stand the damn'd thing

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  jojimbo (@jojimbo_) reported 19 minutes ago

  @dakroot I started...1994? Intro to computer science I was sold & never looked back. ICQ (messenger) predated aol msgr, it was pretty cool, & i did like chatrooms. I worked nights & usually stayed up all night doing homework, so they were good ways to "socialize" around my crazy hours.