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  1. Eurovision Ticket Info

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    12 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

    When they say 2000+ people ahead of you, how big is the plus?

    Apparently you can View the Source of the page and Search for "ahead" and it will tell you. I was 49,195 earlier 😞 

  4. Green Man 2023

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    1 hour ago, SweepingTheNation said:

    Not really, it's a tube that protects wires. Also Wire haven't gigged since Covid and don't have anything listed.

     

    1 hour ago, xxialac said:

    A conduit is not a wire but the mechanism to hold the wire like a pipe. So it could be. Other than they haven't toured in years.

    OK both good points. Is there a band called Pipes? 

  6. Green Man 2023

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    12 hours ago, benali said:

    I don't know if capacity has gone up, I thought it had hit a ceiling a good few years ago?

    Thanks for all this!

    Just to clarify on the capacity point, I didn't mean it had gone up or down, I meant I think it was a reduced turn out in 2021 due to lockdown (and people being able to carry their tickets over to 2022)? I'm not sure as I bought my 2021 one in 2021. But it did feel busier in 2022. As I say I've only been those two times so difficult to judge.

    We got there Thu afternoon last year and struggled to get a spot. Guess we'll just have to go Thu morning this year.

  7. Green Man 2023

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    18 hours ago, grumpyhack said:

    other than to say it gets pretty rammed so an early turn up would be adviseable.

    On this note: I've been twice. In 2022 and 2021. And the camping situation seemed MUCH busier last year compared to 2021.

    Does anyone know whether this was because there were just less people there in 2021 (for obvious reasons) or because some people were allowed in a day earlier in 2022 (due to train strikes). A combination of these? Or some other reason?

    Basically we didn't get there much later in 2022 than 2021, and we really struggled to find space for even three tents together. Is that the norm and 2021 was unusual?

  8. The National

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  10. Green Man 2023

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    On 12/28/2022 at 9:09 PM, Kaboom Boxer said:

    Seeing a few posts about him clearing fields. What’s so bad about his sets?

    His Park headline set at Glasto 2015 was incredible. Reckon he'd smash it at Green Man.

    Also all this talk of The Walkmen is getting me very excited.

  13. ticket tips and tricks Glastonbury 2024 resales

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    Posted · Edited by Fish Bulb

    1 minute ago, parsonjack said:

    What was your auto-refresh rate on Firefox?  It would jump back to the normal page once your refresh rate fell below 60/minute, but if the next auto-refresh is quick enough to then breach the limit again it would 'lock' again....and so on so forth.

    Gotcha! It was every 1 second. It seems like the auto-refresh limit is just over this maybe? I'm thinking if I have 4 tabs open, but set auto-refresh on all to 5 seconds, I should be safe but still increase my chances?

    Edit: 4 different browsers of course.

  14. ticket tips and tricks Glastonbury 2024 resales

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    8 minutes ago, Havors said:

    Its session based, uses your token I think. 

    Easy to test. Open a chrome window and firefox window... bash away on one. Only that one will be locked. 

    Ok just tried this. Had Chrome, Edge and Firefox open at once. Smashed refresh on Firefox until it "locked" - the others didn't change at all. 

    Also interestingly, I didn't turn off auto-refresh on Firefox and it looks like I wasn't actually "locked" at all. That is, it quickly jumped back to the normal page again, then back to the holding page, then back again. Are we sure that we actually have to wait 20 seconds if we get to that holding page?

  15. ticket tips and tricks Glastonbury 2024 resales

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    3 minutes ago, t0paz said:

    Yes. That’s exactly what I tested yesterday.

    That’s not how I previously thought it worked so now realise I could have been shooting myself in the foot the last few sales!

    Thanks. I did actually just test the same thing in the office with 3 browsers all doing 2 seconds and two of them did hit the "holding page" at about the same time. Interestingly though the 3rd one never did. Also I didn't switch off the auto-refresh and that actually bounced me back off the holding page on those two browsers (I didn't have to wait 20 seconds in holding jail).

    This isn't getting any clearer is it!

  16. ticket tips and tricks Glastonbury 2024 resales

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    13 hours ago, parsonjack said:

    Yes I've carried out similar tests to @stuie in the past and determined similarly that there is a refresh rate limit that should be avoided, hypothesising at the time that it was IP based, and that there could be risks where shared connections were used on a single IP.  

    @stuie's tests do seem to suggest now that the 'block' is not solely IP based, which would be sensible so as not to disadvantage customers on shared connections, and it's therefore possible that See's system inspects requests at a lower level than IP, MAC address that is, to ensure the 'block' is device based rather than solely IP.

    The only fly in the ointment here is that there has been evidence in the past, admittedly some time back, of multiple devices all on the same connection getting a booking page once one device does. This, if the case and not just anecdotal, *could* disprove the above.

    The crux of all this is that we don't know for sure how it all works, and load balancing could add an extra level of complexity to boot.  We have some good ideas, but ultimately unless we can get a See tech to give us a PowerPoint we remain, somewhat, in the dark.

    Whilst we can't be fully certain my advice would therefore be to use 1 browser, 1 tab, 1 device, with multiple devices using separate connections eg 1 x WiFi, 1 x 4G etc.  All devices then stay within the 1/second F5 rate. This would minimise any risk of 'blocking' and simultaneously maximise request attempts and therefore chance.

     

    Very thorough. I know this is partly theory but just so I understand the thinking right:

    Are you saying that if I had a Chrome tab on a 2 second auto-refresh, and a separate Edge tab on the same device also on a 2 second auto-refresh - as these share an IP address they aren't really separate  and combined would trigger the (supposed) 1 second limit?

  17. Arctic Monkeys

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    6 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

    If they've taken your money then you'll have a ticket.

    Check your See account to make sure they're there.

    Bit delayed but I did not, in fact, have a ticket. See have quietly refunded me so that's something.

    We go again tomorrow.

  19. Green Man 2023

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  22. Arctic Monkeys

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    5 minutes ago, SighMo said:

    I bought two but no email yet. Money has been taken though. 

    Ok so could be ok. Thanks. It's the odd confirmation message that's worrying me. 

    Long shot but no-one has screenshotted the page AFTER you buy tickets have they? What should it say / look like? Ta!

  23. Arctic Monkeys

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    Had the money come out my account but I'm sure the confirmation said "This code has already been used" or similar, and no confirmation email - does this mean I did get tickets or didn't? 

  25. Green Man 2023

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    13 hours ago, benali said:

    Sufjan Stevens is my dream booking for a headliner.

    Came here to ask the hivemind if we thought Sufjan was out of reach? Would also be an absolute dream for me.

    For undercard: Lambchop, Andrew Bird, Orville Peck and Gang Of Youths pls.

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