Consider that maybe around 10-12% of the population has an attraction to the same sex (roughly lumping together bi, pan, and binary gay attractions is coarse, statistically, but bear with me here). During Pride gatherings, they still have outages. But they're easier to predict and fix because June is easy to plan around. It's a consistent date range with relatively predictable traffic.

Political conventions often only give maybe a month or two of notice, and are often localized to a single server region. Meaning that rather than that traffic being distributed across a large network, or renting extra servers for a month, it overloads a server that's operating in the 'off-season'.

Besides, I think that the people who are in charge of Grindr might not be feeling particularly charitable toward gay men who espouse and empower magat trash.

Edit: Corrected statistic. Thanks

I suppose the real Takeaway here is that none of us really know what goes on behind the scenes…