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26 minutes ago, brain yolk! said:
How long does everyone give before they refresh the holding page? 1 second? 0.5 seconds?
I'm going mental.
I just keep whacking F5 over and over until I see a page load that isnt the holding page.
Be warned though, it is easy to get carried away and there are a few times over the years when I've pressed F5, the ticket page has loaded and I've already enthusiastically whacked F5 and watched on in horror as I refresh off the page.
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Much like everyone else has said, that performance was one of the best, if not the best, I've ever seen.
It had everything. The fact they are confident enough to shove Yellow as the second song just meant you knew you were in for something special.
I hadn't planned to watch them to be honest, I'm fairly indifferent as a 'Coldplay fan', but I was given a wristband by someone and thought I'd stay to see what it was all about and I'm so glad I did. I think the fact Chris Martin quite clearly loves the place gives it that extra special connection.
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I don't think I'll get next year to be honest.
I've been going since 2009 but my original group has slowly dwindled down over the years as life gets in the way.
Absolutely love the festival and for the best part of a week, nothing else matters.
I did manage to share a vodka with Noel Gallagher up at the Park stage on Sunday and I've experienced a couple of wet, muddy Glastonbury's alongside some really, really hot ones.
I have seen some of the greatest bands/acts ever up close and met some of the greatest people - even if just for five minutes - that I'll ever come across.
Given the situation, I thought the Eavis ending to the Coldplay set was quite fitting too. The great thing about the festival is you can go and see two acts all weekend but still come away having had a fantastic time. For me it has been a great meeting point with friends who live elsewhere in the country all year round.
It's given me memories that will last a lifetime - thank you Glastonbury!
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I'm a northerner in exile who works for London Fire Brigade
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If you get in early - by midday Wednesday - you'll be able to get a decent spot on Pennards away from the bogs
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I generally go with how I feel day to day but it is mainly all day drinking for each day of the festival (I'm 32 now) with cranking it up into the late/early hours.
The longer I wait before I drink the next day, the harder it is to get back into it.
Always keep plenty of water, milk and fizzy drinks handy though and I take vitamins along for the ride.
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Left at midday last year and it took me eight hour to get to London, a lot of that was having to endure everyone slowing down to look at Stonehenge.
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As already said above: don't plan.
This will be my sixth Glastonbury and although I still plan which bands I want to see, the best of times always happen in a random tent/ random bit of grass when you least expect it.
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yeah reckon The Prodigy are a realistic option to go against Adele
Didn't this only happen a few years ago? I swear I watched them on the Other Stage. They had an absolutely awful set hampered by sound issues.
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It's not though. You've listed three things there. That it's the best system is arguably true. That it's the easiest for the festival to use is nonsense - if they wanted that they wouldn't bother with pre-registration and so on. Just let the tickets go on the open market.
It's not the fairest either. It contains designed biased towards rewarding effort and some preparation (and group sizes of exactly six) - it's specifically designed not to give everybody an equal chance. If you actually want to give everyone an equal chance, a ballot system does that.
I'm not proposing they adopt one. I'm just sick of the attitude on here that "this is fairest system" from people that get tickets every bloody year. And I'm one of those people that get tickets every year, but I realise that's because I prepare, have overlapping groups, multiple people trying, and am willing to do the resale if needs be. With the amount of people trying for tickets, it's completely and totally unfair that I get to go 12 times in a row. The chances of that in truly fair, random system are tiny.
I'm still very happy that I get to go - I'm just aware that I'm benefiting from the inherent biases in the system, and not pretending that it's fair and that everyone has an equal shot. And I'm willing to contemplate and discuss what a fairer system would look like because I don't think I have some special right to always have a system that's biased towards me.
How is it unfair that you have prepared, that you have a group of people trying or that you're willing to try and get tickets in the resale?
If you're prepared - there's no guarantee that you 16 laptops and 14 phones will get through any better than one person whacking F5
If you're in a group - they have to enter six registration numbers and postcodes, if you're on your own it's just one.
If you're willing to try in the resale - well if you're not, then obviously you have a disadvantage...
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This will be my sixth - I missed 2010 because of a wedding clash - but I probably have less right than someone who hasn't been.
If I think back to my first in '09, I was 25, I'd been to Reading festival a few times and a few Euro festivals and luckily got a ticket. I remember the excitement driving over in the night, seeing the Pyramid light the sky, joining the convoy of cars making the same trek.
That feeling of seeing the pyramid in person - ok it's not my favourite thing now but at the time, it was the icon of Glastonbury Festival.
I remember exploring the green fields for the first time, seeing the stone circle at 4am for the first time, watching the sun come up; experience Shangri La the first time is something that I'll never forget (thankfully I have the photos to remind me).
I'm a very lucky sod to be going again but to install a tier system and drastically reduce people having the opportunity to experience these same firsts I have - just no.
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I think it's fine as it is but I think social media helps heighten the issue of feeling unfair.
For instance, this morning I couldn't get any response from the server at all. I genuinely thought See had gone down, so I checked Twitter and saw people saying they had booked them.
Lots of people just don't seem to get the process. I've bought tickets for friends before who have thought once they reached the queue page it was a case of sitting there rather than whacking F5 to death.
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I got tickets but even if i didn't it still would have been as fair as it could have been.
We got through on my wife's iPhone on 3g. I also had wired internet and a few dongles giving different connections. The only two that got the holding page were my wifes phone and my macbook with a 4g dongle, the rest were just white pages.
i think the key is get on the site and start refreshing a good 15 minutes before, leave it closer to 9 and you and everyone is else is trying and its difficult to get on the site let alone get a holding page.
Even them some will get the holding page some won't, forget the ones with white screens and concentrate on hitting F5 on those, you still may not get through but there is a decent chance you will.
if you are sitting there on one laptop and get a white page I think you are essentially screwed, hence why you need to have a few different angles.
I think even then it's just pure luck.
I was on the site from 8.15am and by 8.59am the site started returning server errors.
I've tried multiple devices but that just slows down how quickly I can whack F5 on one device. In the end, I bagged 12.
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The ticket reference form is up on seetickets now - CONFIRMED! wooo
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Got 12 in the end.
Was getting nothing and looked like all hope was lost and then it came to life around 9.25. Got onto the registration page, entered details and then it crashed.
Refreshed like a maniac and in. Chrome had stored the numbers so was x10 quicker this time round. Then I guess I just got lucky for a second go.
Won't be happy until the email arrives though...!
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I do t understand this. How do we do that?
Kal is referring to if you type the busy page url directly into your address bar and sit pressing F5 on it. Not if you press F5 on the busy page when you have been referred to it.
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This page has just been updated:
http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/
the twitter feed and login to check your coach ticket links have gone and it now just says tickets go on sale here at 9am.
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No, there isn't.
I've had tickets using IE, Chrome and Firefox over the last few years.
There's no secret, you whack F5 and see if you get lucky.
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You definitely don't want this to happen - by all accounts you go back into the queue
Happened to me in 2013 a few times.
I got onto ticket registration page but I was hitting F5 so much/ so quickly that I'd hit refresh before I'd realised.
You just rejoin the masses in the queuing stage. Very maddening when you realise what you've just done.
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Just checked one of my works remote desktop connections to the web, it's lightening quick....
It pings at 1ms compared to my home of around 30-60, will that provide any advantages?
Nope. Sorry!
Would be advantageous if you were playing games though!
The good old days of 1998 and playing counter strike with a ping of 300. No wonder half the rooms hated me.
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TBH I've always set off using IE, firefox, chrome, safari and using multiple tabs open - using incognito or private browsing in each - and after 15 seconds I realise I'm not superman and so tend to just sit with chrome and holding F5 on one tab.
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Fair enough - that makes sense and keeps everything equal. I don't mind the idea of SEE controlling the ticket sale to make it longer, I would happily spend all Sunday / Monday trying to get a ticket. The last time it took a while I think was in 2011? It was an hour or so before we go through to the ticket page. It felt less stressful back then.
I must admit, I'll be feeling devastated if I don't have a ticket by 9.20 this year given that last year was a sell out in 25 minutes (wasn't it)?
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I thought it was good fun and great to see them get involved. I watched Dolly from afar with little interested last year so didn't know it had already happened.
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Kanye West
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It was the oddest Glastonbury crowd I've ever been involved in. People turned up with the mindset to see Kanye fail and seemed to relish everything negative about the performance.
The amount of cries of "Kanye you're sh*t" - or similar - or people walking off after ten minutes was incredible. I'm not even a fan of his but going to watch someone just to see if they mess up or not is just a little pathetic.
I missed the first 15 minutes so we weren't aware he'd done "N*ggas in Paris" or "Stronger" etc. The sound wasn't great and the cherry picker pause killed a lot of the mood.
I went along to see if this one going to be one "those" Glastonbury performances. In my opinion, it wasn't but it was worth a watch.
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To be fair, last year someone had a fiver sellotaped onto a flag pole and it made for an entertaining 10 minutes in between bands.