I wish I knew what video you were referring to. I saw no video. I knew that every time Republicans gather in masses Grindr gets heavier than normal usage and starts experiencing problems. So after the day’s scheduled events were over I went to an outage site that offers location information expecting to find the usual. And I did.
I’m telling you I used historical data to form a hypothesis and found exactly the data I expected. Look at that map again. Notice other major cities like San Francisco known to have large gay populations aren’t having that outage or aren’t having one anywhere close to the same scale? Notice how it started in the last hour of schedules events? Did you know you can go look at the outage data from yesterday and not see the same peak at 8pm local time?
You can get defensive but that doesn’t change how repeatable this is and how if your ideas held any water we would expect to see other indicators that would match your hypothesis. We don’t.
In my first reply I linked a video that explains the problems with the Republicans crash grindr’ meme.
Again, this is not measuring traffic from Grindr. It’s showing user reports to DownDetector on a heat map. That’s not remotely the same as measuring traffic to Grindr or a reflection of the actual server status of Grindr, primarily because anyone can add ‘data’ to it, regardless of its veracity.
Btw, here’s the official Grindr server status. It’s all green and has been all day: https://status.grindr.com/
It makes a heat map based on problems reported by users that go to DownDetector and report a problem. Have you ever heard of sampling errors?
I linked Grindr’s actual server status page earlier if you missed it (edited it into the wrong comment): https://status.grindr.com/ zero issues reported today.
But I guess a bunch of unverifiable reports is more trustworthy than the actual server status itself.
As in, the traffic it experienced wasn’t enough to cause server problems? Weird how that works.
I’m sure the alleged difficulty in accessing Grindr has nothing to do with thousands of extra people flooding an area and overloading the local cell networks, not all of whom are even Republican and plenty of which are gay.
As a veteran of the cell phone industry I can confidently say that’s not the issue. Maybe in the days 4G when capacity was only capable of 2000 to 4000 connections per square kilometer but with 5G the limit is in the millions and in an area like that it’s all fiber backbone to the MTSO. It’s not the network. If it was we would see Uber and others impacted and we don’t.
It’s not thousands of extra people on the local cell network. That argument fails completely and looks like grasping at straws.
I wish I knew what video you were referring to. I saw no video. I knew that every time Republicans gather in masses Grindr gets heavier than normal usage and starts experiencing problems. So after the day’s scheduled events were over I went to an outage site that offers location information expecting to find the usual. And I did.
I’m telling you I used historical data to form a hypothesis and found exactly the data I expected. Look at that map again. Notice other major cities like San Francisco known to have large gay populations aren’t having that outage or aren’t having one anywhere close to the same scale? Notice how it started in the last hour of schedules events? Did you know you can go look at the outage data from yesterday and not see the same peak at 8pm local time?
You can get defensive but that doesn’t change how repeatable this is and how if your ideas held any water we would expect to see other indicators that would match your hypothesis. We don’t.
In my first reply I linked a video that explains the problems with the Republicans crash grindr’ meme.
Again, this is not measuring traffic from Grindr. It’s showing user reports to DownDetector on a heat map. That’s not remotely the same as measuring traffic to Grindr or a reflection of the actual server status of Grindr, primarily because anyone can add ‘data’ to it, regardless of its veracity.
Btw, here’s the official Grindr server status. It’s all green and has been all day: https://status.grindr.com/
E: meant to edit the next comment down but w/e
Oh, my ability to watch videos is extremely limited. So I didn’t watch it.
If you want to pretend that this is just a meme and not a predictable recurring pattern that’s up to you.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what DownDetector is and what it does.
It reports outages. Those outages always follow major Republican gatherings. Always. Without exception.
It makes a heat map based on problems reported by users that go to DownDetector and report a problem. Have you ever heard of sampling errors?
I linked Grindr’s actual server status page earlier if you missed it (edited it into the wrong comment): https://status.grindr.com/ zero issues reported today.
But I guess a bunch of unverifiable reports is more trustworthy than the actual server status itself.
That page measures uptime. Not lag or other errors.
As in, the traffic it experienced wasn’t enough to cause server problems? Weird how that works.
I’m sure the alleged difficulty in accessing Grindr has nothing to do with thousands of extra people flooding an area and overloading the local cell networks, not all of whom are even Republican and plenty of which are gay.
As a veteran of the cell phone industry I can confidently say that’s not the issue. Maybe in the days 4G when capacity was only capable of 2000 to 4000 connections per square kilometer but with 5G the limit is in the millions and in an area like that it’s all fiber backbone to the MTSO. It’s not the network. If it was we would see Uber and others impacted and we don’t.
It’s not thousands of extra people on the local cell network. That argument fails completely and looks like grasping at straws.