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.
‘Tons of more traffic in an area than is typical can overwhelm a cell network’ is more grasping at straws than ‘this site that uses the IP of anyone who responds to approximate their location is an objective measure of local internet traffic, also VPNs don’t exist’? Please be real.
Were you ever able to find those Republican conventions in Boston, NYC, and every other city lit up on the map? It’s not just one problem with this argument, it’s absolute Swiss cheese.
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.
‘Tons of more traffic in an area than is typical can overwhelm a cell network’ is more grasping at straws than ‘this site that uses the IP of anyone who responds to approximate their location is an objective measure of local internet traffic, also VPNs don’t exist’? Please be real.
Were you ever able to find those Republican conventions in Boston, NYC, and every other city lit up on the map? It’s not just one problem with this argument, it’s absolute Swiss cheese.
Did you just invent a conspiracy theory where people are using VPNs to fake their location data to make it look like Grindr is having an outage?
Then you followed that up saying let’s be real?
Did I read your comment correctly? I don’t want to misinterpret it but that’s what it looks like you said.