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标 题: Grindr In London Overloaded By Gay Olympic Athletes
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jul 23 16:54:08 2012, 美东)
If you were one of London's estimated 350,000 Grindr users trying to log
into the GPS-based gay dating App last week, you may have encountered some
difficulty, due, according to some, to the influx of Olympic athletes trying
to use the service.
In a July 19th post on the Grindr blog, App founder Joel Simkurai issued an
apology to users who had experienced "service disruptions," and explains, "
when we discovered that [Grindr wasn't working], we immediately set to work
fixing the screw-up. The service disruption was a challenging thing to
address, but our tech team worked around the clock to solve the problems and
to whip Grindr back into shape."
Simkurai doesn't address the cause of the disruptions, but London tabloid "
The People," attributes it to the influx of Olympic Athletes in London. The
publication reports:
A gay dating website crashed within minutes of the first Olympic
athletes arriving in London -- due to the volume of demand, say experts...
Technicians believe the arrival of Olympic teams on Monday sparked a flood
of new customers -- and loss of the service in East London.
One Londoner told The People, “It happened almost as soon as the teams got
here. Either loads of athletes were logging on to meet fellow Olympians or
were looking to bag a local."
It's unclear whether these quoted Londoners are the "experts" and "
technicians," or just average users effected by the disruption. It's also
possible that this whole debacle could be an elaborate PR stunt by Grindr,
who plugged a "new Grindr later this summer" in the apologetic blog post.
HuffPost Gay Voices reached out to Grindr to comment on the causes of the
service disruptions but had not received a reply as of publication of this
story.
Veritable or not, the incident raises the important question of
homosexuality at the Olympic games. The 2012 games could be a watershed
moment for international LGBT rights, with some suggesting that gay and
lesbian athletes from countries in which homosexuality is illegal should
come out during the games, and seek asylum in Britain. Only time will reveal
whether this movement takes hold, but the possibility of there being enough
gay athletes to crash Grindr could be a good sign.
