Grindr went down this morning in the U.K., U.S., Europe, and Australia and gay men the world over had a collective panic attack.
According to Down Detector, an independent website that tracks social mentions to detect outages, a surge of Grindr down reports came around 7:00 a.m. EST, with users reporting server connection and login issues.
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The outage last just under two hours and impacted thousands of users. 62% who were affected by the outage had log-in issues, while 37% suffered problems with server connection.
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And nobody was happy about it.
See how folks around the world handled the outage…
IS @Grindr DOWN FOR EVERYONE OR JUST ME? #freakingout
— Your Biggest Stan (.8k) (@_biggeststan) November 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/Feedingmywolf/status/928603725681385472
https://twitter.com/JaySays98/status/928601165796904968
Grindr was down so I reinstalled it and I’m pretty sure I’ve lost all my messages and oh my god disaster.
— Vordie (@TheVordie) November 9, 2017
#GrindrDown can’t cope
— chris (@chrismcfc_) November 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/iTechGeoff/status/928599711996669952
What do I do with my life now grindr is down? ????
— Dan (@ffs__dan) November 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/adam_albasslan/status/928597731203002368
https://twitter.com/AndrewInEcuador/status/928599696439988224
https://twitter.com/dirrtykingofpop/status/928602961680502784
When you wanna get cha rocks off but Grindr is down and Jack’d forever being ashy.
— Lisan Al-Fahgee (@SynKami) November 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/DickGariepy/status/928607493067980800
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