Grindr is the center of the universe

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:25pm

A gay dating website crashed within minutes of the first Olympic athletes arriving in London – due to the volume of demand, say experts.

The Grindr app enables gay men to obtain the locations of potential homosexual partners.

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 said: “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.

“The Grindr system obviously couldn’t cope. It took 24 hours for the app to get back up and running, much to the relief of all concerned.”
Olympians Crash Grindr

[Kad]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:27pm

I literally laughed out loud.

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:28pm

Is Fire Island's unique social life and appeal being lost to the allure of Grindr?

Writes Thomas Rogers:

Log in to Grindr on Fire Island, as you would anywhere else, and you’ll see a grid of 100 smiling faces and headless muscled torsos, a catalogue of men accessible from the comfort of your summer share’s living room. (Although cell-phone service on the island can be spotty, most houses are equipped with Wi-Fi.) The app has been called a “virtual bathhouse” and been pegged by some as a reason for the decline of the gay bar, but in a place like Fire Island, it may be especially destructive.

Aside from the beach, a large part of the attraction of the Pines scene is the opportunity to rub shoulders, and maybe sleep, with attractive and powerful gay men. “Not long ago, you’d walk around here and everybody would be cruising each other, not anonymously, but face to face,” said Sal Occhipinti, a tanned 43-year-old, at a recent afternoon “high tea” dance party in the Pines harbor. A few feet away, on the largely empty patio of the Blue Whale, a group of three men were busily typing on their devices next to the bar. According to Occhipinti, even the Meat Rack, the notoriously cruisy wooded area between the Pines and Cherry Grove, has been taken over by glowing iPhone screens.


Grindr killing Fire Island Updated On: 7/23/12 at 01:28 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:28pm

Out and proud Australian diver Mitch Mitcham

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:32pm

Matthew Mitcham.

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:34pm

Plus the guy who bought your old I Phone is on Grindr right now pretending to be you:
If you've sold or traded in your old iPhone, be aware that your data may not be safe even after you’ve wiped it. There’s a problem with some apps, including the popular gay meeting service Grindr and the heterosexual version Blendr. These services us the phone’s unique ID (or UDID) to log users in, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

If the new owner of the phone downloads the same app, he or she will be automatically logged in with your name, and they will also have access to all your data, according to the report.

"It's just a very poor security architecture choice," said Chris Gatford, director of security consulting company HackLabs, to the Herald. "We certainly wouldn't recommend only relying on UDID values as an authentication mechanism." Even though Grindr uses a secure algorithm based on the UDID, the number is still linked to the device and the data is retained, the report claims.


Security Flaw on I-Phone Updated On: 7/23/12 at 01:34 PM

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:35pm

Joey, Taz & I just call him Mitch.

[Kad]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:37pm

I call him "swimrboi VISITING LONDON be hot/masc/musc"

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:40pm

Sadly Grindr has become so popular that a lot of those guys are switching to Scruff. If I see one more Scruff profile saying "smooth 25 year old for smooth under 30 only" I'm gonna delete it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:41pm

I prefer Growlr, myself.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:42pm

Themysteriousgrowler

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 1:51pm

I guess I'm a "twink" - but I hate Grindr. Scruff and Growlr are much better. Though Scruff has definitely gotten more attitudes recently.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:04pm

Guys actually use these services to get laid?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:09pm

It beats gay.com

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:10pm

We didn't need Grindr. We had faces!

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:18pm

I've never even HEARD of Growlr!

This is too much.

What's next?

I ask you, what's next?

So... is anyone on After Eightr?

[Kad]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:21pm

Obviously not, and that's probably part of the problem.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:22pm

He's not a swimmer. He's a diver.



They're not the same thing, you know.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:22pm

He's not a swimmer. He's a diver.



They're not the same thing, you know.

Updated On: 7/23/12 at 02:22 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:22pm

He's not a swimmer. He's a diver.



They're not the same thing, you know.

Updated On: 7/23/12 at 02:22 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:29pm

Sorry.

*DIVRBOI visiting London be hot/masc/musc

Happy?

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:35pm

The last guy I met online had a swimmer's body all right- like a FLOUNDER!

[Kad]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:36pm

So he flat and less than an inch thick?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 2:38pm

tazberr

[Scripps2]

Posted: 7/23/12 at 3:41pm

I think I'm going to enjoy the next three weeks.