AOL outages and service status in Santa Rosa, California

Problems in the last 24 hours in Santa Rosa, California

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Santa Rosa, California 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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  Mayank Agrawal (@mayankagrawal) reported 4 minutes ago

  Should we need to pay for email? In 2006, AOL and Yahoo announced priority delivery for senders willing to pay somewhere around a penny per message, with the promise that those messages would bypass the spam filter. The diagnosis behind it was correct. Email often breaks because sending is free, and when volume costs nothing, volume becomes the strategy (hello AI outbound!). Everything built afterward (filters, blocklists, sender reputation scores) is an attempt to patch a problem that is fundamentally about economics, and not about technology. Today, the same dynamic plays out on a much larger surface. AI agents can complete forms, take surveys, open accounts, and browse sites at a scale that would have been unimaginable for a spam operation twenty years ago, and most of that activity still registers in company dashboards as ordinary human demand. What I find most encouraging about Proof of Human is that this doesn't require the previous tradeoff. There's no toll, no puzzle, and nothing for a genuine visitor to notice or solve, because verification runs continuously in the background across the whole session rather than at a single checkpoint. When a decision does get made, there's a record behind it that a team can actually inspect, rather than an opaque score they're asked to trust. The email industry spent two decades learning that you can't tax your way to trust, and that authentication works better than obstruction. That lesson is worth carrying into whatever comes next.

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  Marshall (@MarshGradivus) reported 5 minutes ago

  @rawkode you're right we should have irrational attachment to a broken website and keep using their inferior product out of nostalgia brb renewing AOL

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  🜃 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔘𝔫𝔠𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔫 ⟁ (@TheUnclean) reported 7 minutes ago

  I used that name to on a game called Phantasy Star Online. I plugged a GameShark full of mangled code I copied by hand off some aol site. Big mess but got it to work well enough to kill other players or freeze their game by casting magic in brightly lit areas. Too many pixels? Games crashes, can’t render it. Problem was neither could my game! What to do? Lobby teleporter. Hit em with the grants magic spell just as you also click teleport back to game lobby server place. Ophelia 14. Place to be. I also robbed em all of their weapons. Then later gave them out to noobs for frees. I made a game and laid all my goodies in a pile and said take what you want. Fun stuff!

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  sid (@palpatean) reported 8 minutes ago

  AOL chat rooms 1999-2000. Buddies and I would just show up and talk **** to people for no reason. Good times

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  Mari Luukkainen (@mariluukkainen) reported 10 minutes ago

  Bending Spoons is an Italian company that just bought Airtable for $1.2B 3 weeks after going public on Nasdaq. They already own AOL, Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, Eventbrite, Brightcove, and about 50 other products. Revenue $1.3B in 2025, over $600M in Q1 2026 alone. Market cap briefly hit $25B. Their playbook: buy American tech icons at a fraction of their peak valuations, cut 75-85 percent of staff, raise prices, optimize margins. Evernote was bought for $200M after being valued at $1B. Eventbrite for $500M after IPOing at $1.76B. Vimeo for $1.38B. Now Airtable for $1.285B after being valued at $11.7B. The shopping list writes itself. Public SaaS is trading at 3-5x revenue, down from 18x in 2021. AI fear has crushed valuations across the board without distinguishing between companies that are actually threatened and those with deep workflow lock-in. Some categories that are mispriced right now: project management tools like Asana and Monday are trading at fractions of their peaks while still growing and serving enterprise customers. Collaboration and communication tools that have real user bases but stalled growth. Vertical SaaS companies where the software is deeply embedded in industry workflows that AI cannot easily replace. Developer tools with loyal communities but no path to the multiples their investors need. More European companies should be doing this. The 2021 vintage of overvalued American SaaS is a generational buying opportunity. These are real products with real revenue and real customers, just priced wrong because someone raised too much money at too high a valuation. The preference stack crushed the common holders and now the assets are available at good prices. Also, European companies have structural advantages here. Lower cost bases to operate these products and no pressure to hit Silicon Valley return multiples and operational discipline built from never having had the luxury of burning cash.

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  Costa del Sol Fredrik (@fjessing) reported 11 minutes ago

  @miracles7k You are right, never an AOL Address, but the rest!

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  nik bonaddio (@nikbonaddio) reported 11 minutes ago

  jfk is now the worst airport in the city by an order of magnitude it is a historical bag fumbling that is only rivaled by aol (aim) and nerlens noel turning down 70 million

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  Andrew Jeffery (@credealjunkie) reported 12 minutes ago

  A couple live CRE underwriting tests using the three major LLMs: Q1: "Review this lease. Is it NNN, gross or something else?" (The gotcha here was a Prop 13 protection clause.) Grok 4.5 Expert: Nailed it (2:22 mins) Chat 5.6 Sol Pro: Nailed it (5:44mins) Claude Opus 5: Whiff (no time given) Not only did not Claude fail to pick up the exemption to a sale-related property tax increase, but specifically called out that on sale the buyer COULD benefit from a substantial property tax passthrough to the commercial tenant. Oops. (FWIW our attorney using an aol email address easily picked this up) Q2: "This month's PG&E bill was $5,800 - use this annual bar graph to estimate the full year's expense." Grok 4.5 Expert: $74,500 Chat 5.6 Sol Pro: $75,000 Claude Opus 5: $74,400 Very tight range - useful little hack since we sometimes don't get a full year's utility bills to underwrite, and have to eyeball off these sketchy bar charts. The moral of course is that these systems can be amazing, helpful, even indispensable underwriting tools - but can lead you astray if not used properly.

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  Disc Golf Guru (@DiscGolfGuru) reported 12 minutes ago

  @MW_DiscGolf @jaredrrt @JosephMRyan1 19 for me, too. I never had an AOL email.

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  Joseph Gems (@joeygems) reported 13 minutes ago

  @james_xond yes. Aol still have it, still use it. Everybody knows it, so why would I change it. Plus, I have a long, difficult last name. So, Gmail doesn't work for me.