Jules she/her on Nostr: I'm with you there. There's a certain size above which festivals become a logistical ...

I'm with you there. There's a certain size above which festivals become a logistical safety nightmare for organisers and frankly no longer fun for attendees, and the trend does seem to be for more and more of them to exceed this limit. There's been a lot of discussion about how the restriction on camp stoves affects the accessibility for people who can't afford to but every meal from stalls (ie most of us) and people with food allergies. I can completely understand the importance of banning stoves from a fire safety perspective, and have no desire to go back to the days when festivals involved subsisting on protein bars, canned tuna and something suspicious smuggled in under your friend's insole, but without some sort of hot water provision or communal cooking facilities the danger of banning stoves is it does benefit the organisers' bottom line by forcing people to buy more food, then people get cynical and don't comply because they think the festival is