05-03-2024, 06:18 PM
(05-03-2024, 05:11 PM)Flux Wrote: I’m still baffled why their voting system seems stuck in the 90s. Why only phone calls? Can anyone hazard a guess why they don’t offer text/web/app voting yet when it’s become the norm across other programmes?
I understand they might be slower to adapt to new technology being a smaller channel, but for one of their biggest broadcasts of the year, text voting at the very least feels like something they should have started doing a decade ago!
Cost I would've thought. Building a reliable web vote probably costs more than setting up a tried and tested phone voting method - especially for one night a year and not a huge number of voters. They're possibly generating a bit of revenue from the phone lines as well.
I don't think text voting has been used by any show since the phone vote scandal all those years ago.