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Gays for Trump never had much prominence and you speak as if they make up a sizable chunk of a convention of 20k bigoted people. 3.8% percent of adults in 2016 identified as lgbtq and an estimated 14% of those voted for Trump that year. That means statistically there would be 99 lgbtq people there out of 20k, but:
If their data is to believed, that means that the stadium had over 10x the predicted amount of conservative lgbtq folks relative to the general population and survey results of preferred parties by noncloseted individuals and, in fact, had not only more gay individuals than the general population by percentage (which seems crazy for 14% support), but that they all used grindr, an app with less than 3 million global daily users at the time. It also doesn't filter out the few women at that sausage fest.
It would appear that grindr has decided in this environment that it's better to keep their head down. Obviously a typical major service like grindr uses cloudflare. They are not going to "crash" as a result of overusage in an area because any concentrated traffic is easily spread across their network and overloading traffic is handled by cloudflare seamlessly. Unless grindr is actively giving location Hotspot maps for every event I think any dismissal of the article's evidence is in service of narrative rather than evidence, ironically.
Gays for Trump might not have been individually popular, but there was a lot more "just because we're gay doesn't mean we're liberal!" type shit going around at the time. Remember, Trump ran as the first president to support gay marriage, conservative LGBTQ was trying to be a thing. Yeah it might not be responsible for all of them, but it surely contributed. I'm not dismissing evidence, I'm looking at the context of times that would explain why the gayest RNC ever would cause a Grindr spike.