Looks like I wasn't the only one frustrated by ABC's debate livestream

[Old Crow]

I gave up trying to watch it, it was so bad. The Salon story below says that Twitter was flooded with complaints.

http://tinyurl.com/z3y6ypf

[Kalidurga]

1. It was terrible

The tech guy at the debate for the first 15 minutes thought something was wrong with his laptop.

[Live and Learn]

2. Ha, I love this one.

Loving the 20 seconds of the #DemDebate I can see at a time on the @ABC livestream

That is exactly how we felt.

[longship]

3. Well, I did a DU live blog of the debate.

Nobody else wanted to do it, so you all have to suffer with my meager attempt.

Regardless, I think it worked out well.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251926577

I promote this because everybody seemed to be happy about it. I got kudos from both Hillary and Bernie camps. And make no mistake, I am in the Bernie camp.

There are four threads, links within the above link. It is all very entertaining, IMHO.

My best.

[murielm99]

4. Thank you. n/t

[BlueMTexpat]

5. Thanks for your efforts! :)

[BooScout]

6. It drove me nuts!

I switched over to the Young Turks voice stream for part of it but they were irritating the snot out of me talking over the mods and the candidates so I switched back to ABC's stream. If anyone has a link for me to watch a video of it without problems, please let me know and I will try and see all the parts I missed.

[ljm2002]

7. I had to give up and tune into TYT...

...it was AAWWWFFFFUUUUULLLLLLLLLL!

It froze every 2 minutes or less. In order to un-freeze it, I had to reload the page. Every time I reloaded the page, I had to sit through a 30-second or 1-minute ad -- even after the debate started, they did not give viewers a break.

And don't even get me started on the pre-debate show, where they spent valuable time showing us Jeb Bush's town hall in Iowa, among other Republican highlights -- as if those of us who were tuned in to watch the debates (a) didn't know there were any Republicans running and (b) really wanted to see more Republicans before our Democrats got started on their debate.

It was absolutely the worst streaming experience ever. Boo, Hiss to ABC for their attempt to livestream the debate. It was abysmal.