I never said impossible. I said you decided a conspiracy was the more likely situation. I also never said Republicans are mostly gay. That’s your wording and not my position at all.

Okay, you did create a conspiracy theory. Thank you for confirming.

I’m sure it does and that the regular infrastructure is more than capable of handling them. But not one off extraordinary events.

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.

Yet somehow, only GOP cons are a problem.

Hold up. I insist that my position be accurately represented because otherwise you are arguing with a person you made up instead of me.

Reread everything I said. My position is that this happens at every Republican related convention. Not that it only happens then.

Can you correct your framing of my position to be accurate so that I know we are on the same page?

I’m sure there have been DNC related crashes too. But there is no built in hypocrisy because the DNC isn’t trying to repeal gay rights. You know that.

I skipped the rest of your comment because there was so much bad faith in that one sentence that I could see we weren’t having the same conversation.

And 8pm Wednesday is peak time? Even in a city where that isn’t a thing that happens? It just happened to take place coincidentally right as the day’s event was winding down just like it always does during every Republican convention.

That’s a level of coincidence frequency that requires a conspiracy theory because it’s not statistically probable or possible.

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.

That page measures uptime. Not lag or other errors.

I’m not part of its demographic. So no.

Sorry about not seeing LA. SF is there but at a totally different level, right?

The data says it’s true. Time after time. It’s not my narrative. It’s reality. Why do you need to say it’s not true? Why is it that Dallas is lit up like a Christmas tree exactly during the last hour of the scheduled event but not any other 8pm Wednesday in Dallas for a very long time?

It reports outages. Those outages always follow major Republican gatherings. Always. Without exception.

Notice how you skipped Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Places with large gay populations. We have historical data we can use. There was no outage like this last Wednesday, was there? Texas isn’t known for being a gay friendly state, is it? The city of Dallas? Nope. You’re trying to present an abnormality as normal and it doesn’t pass the sniff test. YoYu getting into special pleading territory.

We 8:00 p.m. on a Wednesday is not the normal hookup time. You know that. Unless you know something I don’t know about most grindr hookups.

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.

Population heat maps don’t spike the same hour that conventions end their scheduled content. There is a lot of information on that map and chart that don’t match it being a population heatmap proxy.

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.

That would make sense if the other top 5 were lit up, wouldn’t it? Also note the time. The surge started during the last hour of the scheduled day’s events.

Sorry for not putting the date on it. You want the meta data?

This is the reason I came to the comments

It probably didn’t help that I was a 17-year-old that looked like I was in my late twenties.