Secret glasto

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I would say I would help, but I don't trust myself to not be really drunk at least a couple of times over that weekend as I deal with the crushing disappointment of not being there!

[verrymerry]

On 20/04/2016 at 8:12 AM, stuartbert two hats said:

Whoever takes over needs to not be a knobhead who thinks he's logged in as himself and tweets at stand up comedians, accidentally sending thousands of SMS messages out.

I bet loads of people think Matt Kirshen is going to be playing Glastonbury now.

I wondered why a stand up was following a web developer.  Muppet.

 

I wondered what that was about! 

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, verrymerry said:

 

I wondered what that was about! 

Did you get an SMS? Sorry about that.

[verrymerry]

Just now, stuartbert two hats said:

Did you get an SMS? Sorry about that.

I did but don't worry about it, it was nice to be reminded of the Secret Glasto twitter feed actually

[stuartbert two hats]

2 hours ago, verrymerry said:

I did but don't worry about it, it was nice to be reminded of the Secret Glasto twitter feed actually

Out of interest,  are you using IFTT or the native Twitter SMS? From memory, the native texts don't forward on mentions.

[verrymerry]

9 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Out of interest,  are you using IFTT or the native Twitter SMS? From memory, the native texts don't forward on mentions.

IFTTT, but unfortunately I think they're turning off the SMS function & making it an app notification, which isn't great when at Glastonbury with no smart phone 

 

*Actually I've just read the email properly & you can opt out of your recipes being moved so they'll continue txting you. Phew! 

Well, only if someone steps up to take over Secret Glasto! 

Edited April 30, 2016 by verrymerry
Read things properly

[stuartbert two hats]

34 minutes ago, verrymerry said:

IFTTT, but unfortunately I think they're turning off the SMS function & making it an app notification, which isn't great when at Glastonbury with no smart phone 

 

*Actually I've just read the email properly & you can opt out of your recipes being moved so they'll continue txting you. Phew! 

Well, only if someone steps up to take over Secret Glasto! 

Mark and I have discussed automating the tweets even if there is no one to take over.

[verrymerry]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Mark and I have discussed automating the tweets even if there is no one to take over.

I saw, realise that's far from easy when you'll be enjoying the festival, but it's still appreciated

[stuartbert two hats]

23 minutes ago, verrymerry said:

I saw, realise that's far from easy when you'll be enjoying the festival, but it's still appreciated

The idea is you just queue them up before you go. I'm not going to be doing any tweeting at all during the the festival.

[Glastoboy]

My friend's mum got to see Songhoy Blues in the Crows Nest thanks to you guys. It was the highlight of her festival. Thank you. Top work.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, Glastoboy said:

My friend's mum got to see Songhoy Blues in the Crows Nest thanks to you guys. It was the highlight of her festival. Thank you. Top work.

Make sure they're following The Crow's Nest this year!

[august1]

i'd be interested in doing this I wont be to do it during the day Weds-Fri but evenings and the weekend, would be better than nothing at all?

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, august1 said:

i'd be interested in doing this I wont be to do it during the day Weds-Fri but evenings and the weekend, would be better than nothing at all?

Definately!

[TomViolence]

This was really well run last year, thanks for your involvement! I signed up to text alerts from Twitter which meant I didn't even have to take a good phone to receive the updates

[Bosslar]

Gents.

If I don't manage to get a ticket through competition wins or 'secret' resales then I'd be happy to help out with this, guess it should mean the ticket gods smile on me for 2017?

Tony 

[MoilyX]

5 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Make sure they're following The Crow's Nest this year!

Just taken your advice. They're @crowsnestcrew on Twitter.

Had to check who the festival were following to find them, saw the few acts they're following and thought that woud be a great way of secretly announcing a few new acts. Imagine if they just started following R****head!?!

[stuartbert two hats]

2 minutes ago, MoilyX said:

Just taken your advice. They're @crowsnestcrew on Twitter.

Had to check who the festival were following to find them, saw the few acts they're following and thought that woud be a great way of secretly announcing a few new acts. Imagine if they just started following R****head!?!

@secretGlasto itself follows quite a few useful accounts.

[MoilyX]

26 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

@secretGlasto itself follows quite a few useful accounts.

Ah, good point! Didn't think of that!

[Migraine]

You lot are too nice, I would be too tempted to spread misinformation 

[stuartbert two hats]

3 minutes ago, Migraine said:

You lot are too nice, I would be too tempted to spread misinformation 

Believe me, it was tempting to send all the Bastille vans to the middle of nowhere. But in the end, the tip about their set got me the best feedback of the festival. Turns out some people really like them!

[Glastoboy]

On 02/05/2016 at 11:18 AM, stuartbert two hats said:

Make sure they're following The Crow's Nest this year!

Any secretglasto you want to reveal now?

[stuartbert two hats]

1 minute ago, Glastoboy said:

Any secretglasto you want to reveal now?

Crow's Nest always tweet out their running list on the day.  Always at least a photo of the chalkboard, sometimes written out.

The only advantage to SecretGlasto was that I would reformat the tweets so that they would fit on ITTT text messages, since longer tweets could be truncated.  But the downside is SecretGlasto tweets would always be later and generally miss out the end times.

As for secret set info, it's essentially impossible to work out a secret set until the full running order has been released.

[stuartbert two hats]

@eFestivals Last year I created a post on secret sets and continually edited the first post to include details of the sets.  Since there are multiple people running the service this year, I thought about creating a SecretGlasto forum account to share between all the helpers, but then remembered that non-gold members have a time limit for editing old posts.

Can you think of any work around?  It would be nice to keep it all inside the forum, but the only options I can think of are an external wiki (not that I know of any suitable ones) or purchasing gold membership just to get round the edit facility for a month, which seems a little excessive.  Anybody else have any ideas?

Edited May 3, 2016 by stuartbert two hats

[carlosj]

28 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

@eFestivals Last year I created a post on secret sets and continually edited the first post to include details of the sets.  Since there are multiple people running the service this year, I thought about creating a SecretGlasto forum account to share between all the helpers, but then remembered that non-gold members have a time limit for editing old posts.

Can you think of any work around?  It would be nice to keep it all inside the forum, but the only options I can think of are an external wiki (not that I know of any suitable ones) or purchasing gold membership just to get round the edit facility for a month, which seems a little excessive.  Anybody else have any ideas?

If a forum account is the best way forward, I'd make a contribution to the gold cost (but can't help with running it in June), especially as it's using the eFests resources, albeit for a brief time.

Edit: or use a Google group?

Edited May 3, 2016 by carlosj

[stuartbert two hats]

Anyone else care to chip in?  We're looking to raise the massive, world changing amount of *drum rolls* £18!