Gay apps Grindr and Sniffies were two of the many platforms knocked offline due to Cloudflare’s global outage on Tuesday (18 November).

Facebook, X/Twitter, ChatGPT, Zoom, Spotify and Canva, were among the other well-known names to be affected due to a technical error.

Cloudflare, which provides network and security services to numerous high-profile websites and platforms, oversees about one-fifth of the world’s internet traffic. Users began to report issues using gay dating app Grindr at about 1pm in the UK, 8am Central, with both Android and iOS apps and web, chat function, The Grid, taps and albums all hit.

Grindr’s tech team launched an investigation and quickly identified the issues were a result of Cloudflare’s worldwide outage. Normal service returned about three hours later.

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