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It’s already beyond my comprehension how people afford it even without paying someone to guarantee them a ticket.

It’s definitely working before that, I got flagged on one connection joining the waiting room

When I saw that Rock Werchter considered Sam Fender as the headliner, I was disappointed.

Dramatically so.   Not going to go into details, but while the previous system could never be described as "bot-proof" (just as no system really can) - the fact that it could be so inconsistent, error occasionally, or just fall over did mean that anyone trying to connect to it had to somewhat babysit their connections. It created a kind of protection in itself.   New system makes it far easier to do all kinds of things that people would consider unfair, and to do so from a few different angles. And in terms of bots specifically, in the true sense of the word - to do so far cheaper and quicker than most people reading this would have expected.

Ahh well. I’m not too bothered about 20,000 strangers I’ll never interact with. At worst, they’ll be inconvenienced for a couple of minutes. It’s like when there’s a massive queue to have a poo. If I’m in the queue for a poo, it’s because I’m genuinely about to poo myself because I have a sh*t bowel (literally). So I’m not queuing, I’m walking to the front to find the closest free portaloo because I will poo myself. Others would do the same if they felt like it.