One week till VidUKon 2026! Test your setup

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Just one week to go until this year's con \o/ Keep an eye out next week Thursday for an email containing your conbook and Discord invite. Familiarise yourself with our code of conduct ahead of the con. You can also check out our AI policy HERE.

If you've not registered yet, you still have until June 4 to do so. You can sign up HERE. 

If you've already signed up, now is a good time to log into the platform to make sure you're all set for the con. Once logged in, you can check out the con schedule HERE. 

Test your setup

We highly recommend you test your setup ahead of the con to make sure there are no conflicts between our platform and your browser. While playback was smooth for most during testing, there were a few browser/OS combinations that caused issues. 

While there's no Festivids vidshow at this year's con, findmeinthealps VJed one anyway, and you can use it to test your setup. Find the show here: Best of Festivids 2025/26.

During testing, a few folks experienced distorted audio during two of the vids: Weapon of Choice (Clue) at 8:27 and Now You Know (Knives Out) at 27:03. If you want to test playback in your browser, you can either watch the entire vidshow (it's great!) or skip to about 30 seconds before either vid to see if the transition is smooth with no audio issues.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to give a clear "recommended browsers and OS" list because video streaming browser compatibility is very complex and we're a small team with limited time to invest into optimising this so that it's consistently reliable. 

If you are having playback issues in your browser of choice, we suggest switching to one that works for you. Here are a few suggestions based on known issues:

• If there was a specific browser you used successfully last year, stick to it but do test anyway.
• Folks who had trouble in Safari last year can try again as we know what caused those issues and are doing our best to avoid them this year.
• Same with Firefox: some recent test users had no trouble in Firefox, so last year's Firefox warning may not apply anymore.
• Our recent test vidshow showed that on some systems, Chrome will distort the audio of certain vids. This distortion should usually be fixed with a refresh. 
• Another option is to try Vivaldi, which worked reliably as an alternative, at least on Mac and Windows.

One final note, if you find that audio and video are not syncing during the course of a show, refreshing the page will do the trick.

Thursday night programming

Just a reminder that while the con officially kicks off Friday afternoon BST, we do have a wonderful appetizer Thursday night BST in the form of the all-virtual Vidder's Choice show. 

Quiz

If you've not signed up for Friday's quiz, you can still do so on your Dashboard. Folks who sign up will be sorted into teams prior to the con – a good icebreaker to start off the weekend. 

Those who don't wish to join a team but still want to test their quiz skills can follow along on their own (no need to sign up). The questions and answers will be posted to Discord and all attendees will have access to the stream on the VidUKon platform.

In-person Covid policy

If you're attending in person, make sure to check out our Covid policy ahead of time. You can find it HERE