You still haven’t owned up and apologized for using “you are gay” as an insult.

Because I literally never said that, ever, to anyone, not today and not ever, not even when I was an obnoxious teenager, right when homophobic slurs were all the rage and I didn't do it then, despite being called gay for not bullying kids for supposedly being gay. So no, that's not what I said and it's certainly not what I meant, ever.

It was just another straw man, increasingly clearly deliberate misinterpretation in your growing pile and another ad hominem non-rebuttal from you of any of the real points I raised.

Regarding "externally validated" status logs, I just don't know if I can explain a third way how an outrage which was reported as local to the Republican convention would be more likely caused by the local CDN servers or some DNS issue, not grindr's central servers. I don't understand why you're still looking for it there. The headline would have been "grindr goes down globally during RNC" not "grindr outage at RNC host city. Again. After all the other times."

Maybe check in a dictionary for some extra clarity on the distinction between "city-wide" and "globally"!

I notice how you didn't link me to Wikipedia or anyone (outside the gop) talking about downdetector being unreliable, and wikipedia only seems to be linking articles saying how quick it is at spotting outages and how sysadmins of large websites rely on them for information. Seems like the people who understand how the internet works disagree with you.

As I suspected, you're unable to point me to even a single instance of you ever claiming in the past that this or that status monitoring website is unreliable and not to be trusted outside of it being a story that's damaging to the famously homophobic Republican party.

I don't know what the source of your cognitive dissonance is about the gop conventions regularly causing localised problems with grindr, and I don't know how obsessive you believe outrageous dangerous commie leftist socialists are to go RNC-chasing just to create a spike in evidence of outages, but what I do know is that when something keeps happening again and again, to the point of it being old news, the plausibility to me of it just being a random coincidence or some vast elaborate hoax drops.

you conjectured those baseless claims I don’t hold

Projection.

The "global outage" is your straw man. No one ever claimed that. The evidence is all about local outages to the host city of the RNC, and its happening regularly. A local outage likely wouldn't even register at grindr's end and is much more likely to be an issue at the local CDN (throttling an overload or not coping with the volume of requests) or some DNS issue.

But like I said, people like you take news about outages perfectly happily except when it's the gop convention overloading grindr as has become usual.

Suddenly then there's extreme skepticism because you can't accept that political views, which are socially transferred could conflict with sexuality which isn't.

Why would conservative households and neighborhoods somehow prevent bisexuality and homosexuality in their members? That's science denying shit. If you think being in the group being criticised somehow bars rightwingers from making hypocrisy-laden public condemnation, you really haven't been paying attention.

So that subpopulation exists, but of course is caused to feel great shame, hides it, and often has the best opportunity to go on grindr, without their neighbours recognising them, when they're away from home at the gop convention, where the vast majority of men on grindr are conservatives who share their social need for absolute secrecy. Of course there's a spike.

But no, suddenly, and with this specific outage, but no other report of outage, you're complaining that the outage monitoring websites are not to be trusted, their methodology is flawed, it's contradicting the global servers' claimed uptime or some other excuse. It's just reality denial, and it comes from the gop itself, who are the masters (in the western world) of reality denial and flooding the channel with shit and spray gun excuses.