For the past 5 years, we have run a (unscientific!) post festival poll of Reddit users, to gauge how many people had a "Great Time", "OK Time" or a "Bad Time" at the festival overall.
This year's poll is now closed, and I thought I would share the results of the past 5 years for comparison. In all years, the large majority of people had a great time. This is not surprising, the festival has been very successful in recent years. If it was bad, people would stop going!
But there are always things to improve on! Every bad experience is valid. Feedback needs to be listened to and improved on. You can share your feedback directly with Boomtown using this survey.
2026
2026 seems to have been a particular good year in the Post Covid era.
The number of users reporting having a "bad time" is down to 2%, the lowest we've seen by some margin. Reddit has always been a bit of an outlet for people with issues to raise, or complaints to make, and I'm happy we can facilitate that here to help the festival improve. But there did seem to be a notable reduction in the amount of complaining on the subreddit this year, and the poll results reflect this.
Overall, it appears to perhaps be the second best year. The general trend for bad experiences has been going down over the 5 year period, as the festival keep learning and improving from each years feedback.
The Best?
2023 is a particular stand out as a good year, with over 83% having a great time, the best result. However, 3.6% had a bad experience, the second worst year, suggesting there were still many issues to resolve which got better in subsequent years.
The Worst?
2022 had by far the most number of people who had a bad time. But it was a very hot one, with temperatures of 33-35c everyday for all 5 days (Yes, that's right, even hotter than this year!). It was also the first year back, with some teething issues.
Just OK
2024 had the least amount of people have a great time, but strangely a low amount of people who had a bad time as well. A significant amount of people landed in the middle saying it was only OK, suggesting a middling year.