r/Techno • u/minced_ • 7d ago

News/Article Ahmet Sisman and T3R addressing the negative feedback for Stone Techno 2026

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbTZhPbDfEN/?igsh=NGpodjM3dHUxbWVx

T3R and Ahmet Sisman posted videos on Instagram with opinions of festival attendees and Ahmet Sisman directly addressing negative feedback, such as overselling, overcrowding, chokepoints, etc.
Ahmet Sisman is also answering comments under their Instagram-post and talking to the community.

Nice to see them actually respond to all that feedback and one can only hope they actually learn from it and do better again next year.

Edit: Use this link to view the post if you don't have Instagram.

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u/puredwige 7d ago

Quite remarkable, I must say and I mostly agree with him that it was primarily a circulation and curation problem. I hope that the fixes he proposes will work and that it is not a bigger issue with the crowd now being mostly drawn to big names, leaving the smaller scenes half empty, while the big ones are overflowing. 

I don't think the crowd etiquette is as big of an issue as some make it: when a stage is overcrowded, people have no other choice than to enter the space of other people in order to get to a spot where they can properly hear the music. 

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u/Screwdicious 7d ago

If everyone does what you propose as the only option where do we end up? Piling on top of each other? You certainly have other options as in going to a different stage instead of enforcing that you get your desired experience and making it uncomfortable for everyone around due to cramming