Request: Blank documents for "Grindr"

Phoenix
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Hi everyone,

I am trying to add points and annotations for Grindr, but I have run into a technical issue on the platform.

  • The Problem: When I go to annotate the “Terms of Service” and “Privacy Policy” documents, the text boxes are completely empty. It looks like the automated web crawler failed to scrape the text from Grindr’s website, likely due to bot protection or dynamic loading. I do not have the necessary account permissions to manually paste or edit the document text myself to fix the crawler’s failure.

  • The Request: Could a curator or admin please step in and manually paste the text for Grindr’s ToS and Privacy Policy? (Privacy | Trust Center)

Once the text is populated, I have a list of points ready to link and submit for review.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Dr_Jeff (Guennadi Maximov C) 2

We can’t do that, to my knowledge. We use the crawler as to strip (most) HTML stuff, convert tables and other issues that might happen when copying.

I just tried to re-crawl the docs, but the page layout uses non-standard HTML structure, which confuses our crawler, apparently.

I’ll talk with the team and see if there’s anything we can do about the crawler.

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Any updates on this? Should I open an issue on the crawler GitHub?

Surely there has to be a way to manually edit documents. As a last resort, would it be technically possible for someone with more system access to put the page contents into a text or Markdown file and then send that off using whatever API call the crawler uses?

Dr_Jeff (Guennadi Maximov C) 4

Unfortunately no updates on this. Currently I don’t know where exactly the code for the crawler is hosted at. Will tell you as soon as I get confirmation from Staff.

Unless a developer corrects me, I don’t think our API works this way.

In my opinion, our crawler model is a bit old and rough around the edges, which limits our capacity to modify it without breaking other stuff. This has unfortunately been an issue from the start of the project (or at the very least since I joined, circa 2020).

Suggested Solution

For uncrawlable documents, which there are a lot of, you can add a blank point citing the text of the document as an alternative.

I’m sorry that this is the current solution. I am not involved in the coding part directly (I don’t know Ruby), and our devs have, understandably, their jobs and personal life.

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