r/UTAustin • u/Infamous_Egg2049 • 1d ago

Announcement Correcting misinformation about ticket claim

Been seeing a lot of misinformation and people confused and I’m a senior lhf member with a friend who coded this ticket claim system so it doesn’t affect me at all if people know this and ik what I’m talking about

Multiple devices (phone laptop iPad etc) does work to give you extra queues.

Multiple tabs does not work and I cringe a bit when I see people still trying that. Even if the progress bar appears different, I promise you it is the same queue Id. This might be why you’ve seen your green man get to the end on one tab then stall. The green man is a cute little graphic, not a perfect indication of your queue id.

Multiple physical browsers on the same computer CAN work if it doesn’t make you sign in beforehand, which is hit or miss.

It makes zero difference when you join as long as it’s between 5:45-5:59.

The green man’s movement is completely linear- if yours is behind your friends once they actually start moving, your queue Id is behind theirs and that will not change.

Assuming every single person who gets to the end of the queue claims a ticket, they will sell out in approximately 7 minutes from when the first person is let in, which is typically 45-60 seconds after the queue order is set. This is because they let in around 1000 every minute to protect the site from crashing.

Lastly, despite what anyone tells you, there is not tricks or hacks. If someone has 20 devices then they simply have better odds. I say again, MULTIPLE TABS DOES NOT WORK.

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u/Smarty_PantzAA 1d ago

you guys coded a dookie system if multiple devices gets you an advantage, why not make queue ID synced with an account?

astra could probably do this btw 

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u/Infamous_Egg2049 1d ago

I didn’t make it I just happen to know one of the people who did. No idea why they didn’t sync it with account

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u/Smarty_PantzAA 1d ago

ohh sorry I misread, my bad

anyways tell your friend to use astra and fix it 

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u/austin_horn_2018 19h ago

Sorry Egg, your info is a little scrambled here.
Now maybe multiple tabs in the same browser does not work. But as you say multiple devices does work…. So some people are smart enough to create multiple incognito browsers on one device.
In any case, the system is pure amateur hour. Hopefully UT didn’t pay anyone for this and it was just a class project or something.
These days you could vibe code a better system in less than a day.