AOL outages and service status in Hampton Bays, New York

Problems in the last 24 hours in Hampton Bays, New York

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Hampton Bays, New York 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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  f_marzotto (@f_marzotto) reported 2 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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  🐺Molly O'Kami🐺 (@MollyOKami) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Shadow87Claw 19. Only never had an AOL address. Hotmail is my oldest. Technically 18. My parents & childhood friend had waterbeds, not me. Never wanted one. Hurts my back & I felt like drowning.

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  Trevor (Taylor’s Version) 💫 Eras Tour DETROIT N1! (@TaylorFan01313) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TweetThisBabe @AOL I use an adblocker and never see ads in my email (although the placeholder for them is still there. Hi Lynnie by the way!

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  Aseem Kishore (@akishore) reported 11 minutes ago

  $MU first day of q3 and the market’s already doing splits — dow up, nasdaq down, everyone figuring out what’s next after that insane h1 run - dow hit a fresh intraday high (+28 pts, +0.1%) - s&p flat, nasdaq off ~0.5% — tech stumbles as semis get sold off - micron MU down 9% today but still up 250% ytd — sandisk SNDK crushed 10% after that wild 850% h1 surge - profit-taking much? after 80%+ collective gain in chips this year… yeah, makes sense - bending spoons (aol, vimeo owner) jumps 42% on u.s. ipo debut — random flex - guggenheim upgrades salesforce and servicenow to buy — enterprise life goes on so the laggards are finally getting love while the darlings bleed — what a world. MU SNDK

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  Richard Cranium (@RichardC75736) reported 12 minutes ago

  @matthewdmarsden So you are willing to sacrifice all the kids with bad parents? Sounds pretty messed up to me and certainly not very Christian! I applaud you, I tried to do it and my wife divorced me and then the daughter was ***** after meeting a guy from AOL IRL. But I was the bad guy.

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  Floyd Jewell (@Cal16255) reported 13 minutes ago

  @lady_valor_07 @Yahoo @MSN I bought my first computer around 1987-88. Best Buy signed me up with AOL. I had the computer maybe 3-6 months. AOL flagged me saying they could not provide me service because my Computer wasn't fast enough or big enough to use their service. I knew absolutely nothing about comp.

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  liberty91362 (@liberty91362) reported 13 minutes ago

  @brivael I worked at Time Warner for 24 years, and lost hundreds of thousands of my 401k in the infamous AOL merger that killed off the greatest media company in the world—the worst merger in corporate history. I mostly blame Steve Case and his other AOL cronies, who dumped all their stock right at the merger, while all the TW Execs and employees kept their stock and lost billions. I remember McKinsey’s empty suits seemed to be everywhere at Time Warner in its dying years, and it always seemed like McKinsey helped orchestrate its collapse.

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  Wendy (@Wendyfrigeri) reported 15 minutes ago

  @lady_valor_07 @Yahoo @MSN I screeched when Prodigy left the USA as at that point we had to get AOL accounts, which were garbage & only got worse.

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  Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) reported 17 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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  craig 🥐 (@toujoursyucky) reported 19 minutes ago

  As someone who experienced AOL chatrooms at 12 years old, I get that there should be restrictions and oversight. But I can’t help but feel like maybe there’s better ways to go about it than ID laws or outright bans that don’t consider whether or not a site is 100% adult-oriented.