Grindr and Other Gay Apps Go Down After Cloudflare Outage

Grindr and other gay apps go down after Cloudflare outage

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 …

Cloudflare problems: Chief Technology Officer Dane Knecht apologises to internet after global outage took down popular apps including X and ChatGPT

Cloudflare Chief Technology Officer Dane Knecht has apologised to the internet after the global outage on Tuesday 18 November.

Cloudflare went down yesterday. My monitoring lied. So I built this.

Yesterday’s Cloudflare outage wasted a few hours of my time — not because the outage was confusing, but because my monitoring stack gave me zero context about what was actually failing. Everything lit up red. Every alert fired. But nothing told me whether the problem was: my origin Cloudflare’s edge DNS SSL routing My servers were completely fine the whole time. The real issue ended up being Cloudflare’s Bot Management system (a feature file dou…

Cloudflare Outage Traced to Internal Error, Not Cyberattack - HostingJournalist.com

Cloudflare is detailing the root cause of a major global outage that disrupted traffic across a large portion of the Internet on November 18, 2025, marking the company’s most severe service incident since 2019. While early internal investigations briefly raised the possibility of a hyper-scale DDoS attack, Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince confirmed that the outage was entirely self-inflicted.The Cloudflare disruption, which began at 1…

The Scoop: Cloudflare shows speed and ownership in outage response

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