AOL outages and service status in Chesterton, Indiana

Problems in the last 24 hours in Chesterton, Indiana

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Chesterton, Indiana 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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  oh_well (@confirm__email) reported 6 minutes ago

  @MarinaMedvin All this is aol Ed by simply leaving nato and let the eurozone deal with their own problems. I hear France can sortie a flotilla with carrier at least for a few weeks. And the UK only needs a couple of months to get one destroyer ready for sea. win win. Imagine all the lolz

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  MychaelP (@MP_InTheMoney) reported 7 minutes ago

  @KrisPatel99 Nothing. It's desperation as they lose valuable advertising $ from teens no longer using the service. The age of fake ai may be the new turn just like how AOL and Myspace once ruled

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  f_marzotto (@f_marzotto) reported 9 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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  Darling Jones (@darling666jones) reported 9 minutes ago

  @SnowHimbo my mother...a learned woman..like not an idiot couldn't fathom that a randomizer might be involved if AI was asked to make a choice not weighted...or that it simply wouldn't be lying...its wild how hoodwinked this generation before AOL chatrooms & bots are to customer service lines at best.

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  Michael L. Gaugler (@gaumishang) reported 10 minutes ago

  @cutoffs_io I am freaking Gaumishang everywhere. Twitter LinkedIn Yahoo AOL you name it I unified my entire online presence decades ago and still refuse to have a Facebook account because first of all that ******* is an ******* and does not have the American people's interests in mind. You can even look up my thesis film at UB, those of you who use it are buffoons. PK12 BA MAH BSEd.🙏🇺🇸

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  Jamie (@jamielyn0127) reported 12 minutes ago

  @zedamex @el_mesa @RinoTheBouncer That still requires players to have a strong enough internet connection to do these things. What do you propose people in rural areas with poor or zero home internet access should do? AOL shut down back in Sept 2025 which was one of the few options rural families rely on.

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  Kevin Jones (@NomentionofKev) reported 13 minutes ago

  @LexiAIexander Not crazy making, it's by design. AI frustrates the customer & impedes any real change to the account because even canceling a subscription becomes a tour de force with its labyrinthian path to a result. My old cable company has this system which replicates AOL in its last days.

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  Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) reported 15 minutes ago

  LISTSERV Was The Place To Be In 1993! Just after dial up BBSs and just before USENET my X-like place where I went “viral” was LISTSERV. I was on over 1000 active lists. I of course was on forums on CompuServe and AOL, but LISTERV was push and not pull. It was magic! I would write there like I posted here today. There was zero spam and the highest IQs in the world just a list email away. In my Eudora archives (the best email client ever made) I have saved the results of all my lists saved. Before my tape find, I was happy I saved the Eudora in zipped PKG files. One LISTSERV I was on had 1000s of subscribers and it is where I learned of so many things months before it was news. In the 1990s I wrote the first known AI (expert system) for email, to produce a morning “Newspaper” digest I would actually have automatically printed out to read at breakfast. The AI would have knowledge of what I wanted and produced the summaries and headlines. It went viral on some of my lists I was on and it used Eudora mailbox files to access the data. Many like minded geeks like me used the software and one made a LISTSERV out of his output as a meta way to use what he called THE ULTIMATE NEWS LISTSERV. Since posting on my tapes yesterday two folks reached out to me to share their archives! I am not sure if there is overlap, but anyone with data like this, please let me know! Folks we have a mother-load here and I know we will find new data perhaps not seen since it bounced though LISTSERV. Your support made this happen. Thank you.

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  Tiel Lover 🌻🇺🇦 (@tiellover) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AOLSupportHelp It's fixed now. There was a large outage, but fortunately email is back now

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  s w (@SLawohio) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AheadoftheNews Remember the super bowl ad for aol busy signal