No, a population heat map means it’s darker over the cities. There’s more reports in Chicago than say, middle of nowhere Montana because there are more people there to report. This map is reporting the locations people are when they report it is down. And the circles get bigger and darker the more reports from that area. So if it was down everywhere, you would see the biggest circles over the biggest cities, and smaller circles in smaller cities, just like in this map. You see NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fran have the biggest ones, and then smaller cities like Minneapolis have smaller ones.
No, because the map is showing how many reports they got. So it’s red where they got a lot of reports, and that correlates very tightly with where there are a lot of people, making the visualization kind of worthless.
Uh, that just looks like a population heat map, and Chicago would blend in with Milwaukee on this.
I get the joke, but it looks like it’s just having problems everywhere.
Is it having problems at all? Downdetector had 100 reports, which could just be trolling. Grindr’s status page says it’s been up the whole time.
I can’t independently verify this.
I’d venture a guess the service wasn’t really down, just overwhelmed by the higher-than-usual activity and timing out for many people.
Yeah, I get the joke, but this map does not show what people are implying it does, if grindr is even down at all.
“Everywhere” would imply the entire map is red, thanks.
No, a population heat map means it’s darker over the cities. There’s more reports in Chicago than say, middle of nowhere Montana because there are more people there to report. This map is reporting the locations people are when they report it is down. And the circles get bigger and darker the more reports from that area. So if it was down everywhere, you would see the biggest circles over the biggest cities, and smaller circles in smaller cities, just like in this map. You see NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fran have the biggest ones, and then smaller cities like Minneapolis have smaller ones.
No, because the map is showing how many reports they got. So it’s red where they got a lot of reports, and that correlates very tightly with where there are a lot of people, making the visualization kind of worthless.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/heatmap_2x.png
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