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christylive
05-04-2017, 08:51 PM
I tried going back on last night. I think a total of 20 people came into my room within an hour and a half span. Is this the new normal? I just can't fathom wanting to log in anymore there. I'm just burnt out of camming and especially camming with Streamate. I realized nothing is going to change with Streamate so it's best I adapt and go where the money goes.


i am most likely quitting SM summers end. between the almost 0 traffic most days, glitches and the 10-12 minute exclusive i did yesterday that i was only paid 1 minute of it's safe to say my time is coming to an end. i can't complain about my placement because i stopped trying. i feel like unless you are in rows 1-5 it's useless. sorry to be negative but you can only be so positive for so long when the company doesn't care either. I'm sorry but the % they pay for all the work i do is not worth it, how many days do half of us provide tech support to members? it's a full time job in itself just to have friends/fam check my stream let alone asking every other member 'can you hear me now?', "can you see me ok?' .... i'm sorry this is not a Verizon wireless commercial , least dude got paid for that. After i shared my naked body and naughty bits for 10-12 minutes i can't tell you how violated i felt when i saw that i was only paid for 1 minute. i don't care if i was only shorted a dollar and a side of toejam it's the principle, it's my dollar(s) and i worked for it. i don't even know what thread i'm in anymore so my apologies if i'm being a toxic butthole just super annoyed....and hungry >.<

h0ttie
05-04-2017, 09:13 PM
is anyone else missing sounds sometimes? sometimes when they leave i dont get the disconnect sound, or sometimes someone comes in paid and no sound.

really annoying for splitcamming and im scared im gonna end up missing a show or naked in free lol

christylive
05-04-2017, 10:04 PM
is anyone else missing sounds sometimes? sometimes when they leave i dont get the disconnect sound, or sometimes someone comes in paid and no sound.

really annoying for splitcamming and im scared im gonna end up missing a show or naked in free lol

Yes, quite often but I'm used to it

Sunnylexie
05-04-2017, 10:59 PM
I can't be the only person right whose framerate is dropping like crazy and video quality looks like shit. My connection seems fine, but wtf Streamate?

Had it too, so bad I had to log off like an hour early. It definitely wasn't on my end.


i can't complain about my placement because i stopped trying. i feel like unless you are in rows 1-5 it's useless.
I've been on row 1 to 3 this last week, listening to crickets. Thinking of upping my rates because I see no other way to make any decent money off the non-existent traffic.

Sunnylexie
05-05-2017, 12:54 AM
Just so you know how much of a joke SM's been today: I've been streaming at 480x270 (320x180 sometimes) because of the forementioned bitrate drops, and still getting shows and tips.

Way to encourage models to upgrade their equipment lol.

heavymetalgirl
05-05-2017, 07:06 AM
I am so over the fuckery on SM this week. Sent support a message about my hours online not showing up under Ranking, and I haven't heard a peep back from them about this. I wish they would get their shit together ASAP.

imelly21
05-05-2017, 09:07 AM
frames dropping like crazy!

JamaicanAliesha
05-05-2017, 09:28 AM
yeah i am a bit worried about the traffic, it's been very very bad all week. i am nowhere near my average this week and last week was very upsetting.

also, at one point my frame rate while using the broadcaster dropped to like 180x240 or something ridiculous like that. :O

Snowy0Star
05-05-2017, 09:55 AM
For anybody having trouble with dropping resolutions and frame rates I would suggest getting obs . I had issues with my frame rate dropping a lot and there hasn't been any issues with my feed aside from all the issues that happen when the site acts up since I started using it

Sunnylexie
05-05-2017, 09:58 AM
also, at one point my frame rate while using the broadcaster dropped to like 180x240 or something ridiculous like that. :O Same.

imelly21
05-05-2017, 10:44 AM
What is obs?

Snowy0Star
05-05-2017, 10:51 AM
What is obs?

open broadcast software its a FML program

imelly21
05-05-2017, 12:00 PM
open broadcast software its a FML program

But does this work with new SM broadcaster? or only with the old one?

PhatGirlDynomite!!!
05-05-2017, 12:09 PM
But does this work with new SM broadcaster? or only with the old one?

The OBS Classic is the one I use and its an alternative to the Adobe FMLE and the SMBroadcaster https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?199503-OBS-Open-Broadcaster-Software-as-an-Alternative-to-Flash-Media-Encoder

Sunnylexie
05-05-2017, 12:32 PM
Just checked on SM to see if the bitrate was still dropping. Looks like the glitch is gone, at least for now.

pippapippa
05-05-2017, 01:20 PM
I haven't had any bitrate dropping issues, but no one is staying in my room right now and I just had a guy come into my room without a username. He said he logged on and his username didn't show up and his account was fucked. So I assume customers are having glitches are on their side.

KatM
05-05-2017, 05:52 PM
"Very nice" how i am thrown on page FOUR on SM main listings cause of the damn bitrate and fps's drops wtf SM?
I KNOW IS NOT ME cause i tested it with both connections i have and tried all browsers and options here.
FUCK! I am punished for not being guilty, u and ur damn glitches!

KatM
05-05-2017, 07:43 PM
^^^ Doing that just now thank you soo much!!

Sunnylexie
05-06-2017, 03:40 AM
What I do is uncheck the Adaptive Streaming box so that as my fps drops my input quality will stay at 1280X720. Your quality will still be fucked to the guy but at least your placement won't tank because your widescreen will stay put, and IME fps dropping is always temporary. There are two more ways to do it.
If you're an optimist: go to advanced A/V settings and force the aspect ratio to 16x9.That way, your stream will stay widescreen no matter what.
If you're a pessimist/schlimazel like myself: keep the Adaptive Streaming box checked for a while and see where it calibrates you. Then, take the closest widescreen resolution and set it as your input quality. That way, your quality will be shitty but stable, without sudden readjustments and extra stress on your computer.

Mare
05-06-2017, 09:33 AM
It's dead this am. They must have all gotten shithammered for cinco de mayo last night. Bastards.

heavymetalgirl
05-06-2017, 09:42 AM
^Dead AF for me too. Lots of ins/outs and timewasters.

Snowy0Star
05-06-2017, 07:32 PM
is there something going on tonight ? its sat night and there only 1100 models and im in the middle of page 1 with no traffic

SoloDesire
05-06-2017, 08:10 PM
is there something going on tonight ? its sat night and there only 1100 models and im in the middle of page 1 with no traffic

It's just been really dead ALL DAY! Well, all week technically. I sat online pretty much all day for only 3/4 of my daily goal.

Snowy0Star
05-06-2017, 08:27 PM
It's just been really dead ALL DAY! Well, all week technically. I sat online pretty much all day for only 3/4 of my daily goal.

i ive been in gold shows all week and this morning i woke up to find out i got the external chat button on my interface to make it look like ive been in shows all day today. i sent them an email a few days ago asking about. i dont have a site but aparently u dont need one. u can just ask for the button to be added on ur model interface.

Kaya_x
05-07-2017, 03:43 AM
Legit feeling sick right now (just before my lunch as well), had a guy who was sorta a reg, wanting to send pictures and speak about it of someone he knows, turns out it was poo, literally poo, smeared on him, licking it, face, the lot, totally gross, blocked & reported him to SM, not sure whats gonna be done about it tho

Euryale
05-07-2017, 07:49 AM
i ive been in gold shows all week and this morning i woke up to find out i got the external chat button on my interface to make it look like ive been in shows all day today. i sent them an email a few days ago asking about. i dont have a site but aparently u dont need one. u can just ask for the button to be added on ur model interface.

What is the external chat button? I have not heard of this. I do have a break button.
Curious. I'm not on much and don't pay a lot of attention. Sorry if this is a silly question.

Snowy0Star
05-07-2017, 08:20 AM
What is the external chat button? I have not heard of this. I do have a break button.
Curious. I'm not on much and don't pay a lot of attention. Sorry if this is a silly question.

its supposed to be used if you have a personal pay site with a cam room and want to give ur members a free show and allow SM members to watch it and pay per minute to do so. I didnt know you didnt actually need to attach the code they give to you to do to this pn any site to actually use it. I have a cam model store and was thinkng of using it to use this feature but it didnt work. Another cam girl told me I didnt actually need to put the code in anywhere to aviod free chat as there was now a button on my model interface. When its on it looks like you're in a pvt when ur not it basically forces guys to forever see a "fake" "im in a pvt show" screen on SM so the only way they can see you is by going pvt. I'nm going thru some stuff and cant handle free chat all the time and runnning gold shows all day long wasnt making me as much as id like so im trying this out . i was getting a lot of guys leaving right away or leaving faster then i could get paid for i know yesterday was a really day aparently so im gonna try again probably tomorrow. its raining here and the biaractric pressure drops really make me tired on rainy days. its offically a lazy sunday and probably gonna order a pizza later

SoloDesire
05-07-2017, 08:38 AM
Yeah, I have the external button (I also have a website it's attached to) and I can tell you that it won't get you more shows. I've used it before to experiment and to get a break from free chat, but I rarely ever get any shows while sitting in a forced private. I do have a lot of guys pop in and out that could potentially be spenders though, I think they just get confused when they see me sitting there. So don't be too quick to block them. It will also hurt your placement after a while.

The main thing that keeps me from turning it on is the back door that many more users have figured out how to use. While you have it turned on, hackers can access your show without you even realizing it. So just keep that in mind if you actually get naked or do shows while the external show is on.

Susperia
05-09-2017, 11:50 AM
Legit feeling sick right now (just before my lunch as well), had a guy who was sorta a reg, wanting to send pictures and speak about it of someone he knows, turns out it was poo, literally poo, smeared on him, licking it, face, the lot, totally gross, blocked & reported him to SM, not sure whats gonna be done about it tho

Thank you for making me laugh today. I've been crying all night cuz my cat is sick and on its deathbed. Unfortunate situation for you, but I couldn't help but laugh....that is fucking gross though.

Glamourmilf
05-10-2017, 03:05 PM
I wish there was a way we could have 4 ratings removed.:(
Some little twerp took me to private immediately after the gold show he was in.
He stayed just long enough to rate a 4.
Luckily, he accidentally came back into my free chat a few minutes later, and I blocked his ass.
But, it brought my average down, so there I was..... Pleading with each customer after that to PLEASE rate me a 5.
Like, why rate a 4???
What could the reason possibly be?
"Didn't get up fast enough to twerk."
Who the fuck knows why with these guys.

xCamLovex
05-10-2017, 03:56 PM
you can get it removed. just email support.

Diamond Dust
05-10-2017, 04:00 PM
you can get it removed. just email support.

Damn, I wish I would have known this. I always knew that 1 star ratings could be removed, but I wasn't sure about 3 or 4 stars. I figured I couldn't, so didn't bother trying. Anything that isn't a 5 star rating is bad though in my opinion.

christylive
05-10-2017, 04:47 PM
I''m on pg 3/4 . GREAT! according to twitter others are having shit placement issues now. why don't i cam full time on SM anymore? oh that's right!?!! i'm not expecting 1st page row 2 placement just the middle/bottom half of page 1 where i have been almost 4 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so if you notice your traffic is lower than normal check your placement. probably placed on another planet like me

h0ttie
05-10-2017, 06:50 PM
omg today is glitches on glitches. if i didnt take most of the week off i would NOT be online right now. it seems like everything is going wrong. guys being kicked out of shows left and right, so many people telling me my cam isnt loading....not 1 person has been able to cam2cam, exclusives not going thru (like they just vanish)....i could go on but please SM fix it!! lol

illuminaughty
05-10-2017, 06:55 PM
I haven't worked in the past few weeks.

Signed onto streamate today and made almost no money after almost 2 hours.

Left and went on another site and made over 100.

Bleh. Welcome back

TrifilinCamHo
05-10-2017, 07:27 PM
Ummm.

What in the actual fuck is happening today? I've been sitting in a dead as fuck room for 29 minutes & counting practically begging people to give me feedback on whether or not my feed is even loading and no one is answering which leads me to believe that it is NOT. Barely anyone has even said a word. I have really good placement yet traffic is garbage. Something is obviously not right.

I'm always saying this but it bears repeating: Streamate can suck my fucking dick with their complete lack of transparency and by extension lack of respect for our time as people that give them sixty-five fuckin percent of what we make. It would be nice to at least have a fucking heads up that the site is glitchy so I could maybe opt to do something else with my time instead of sitting in a shitty dead chatroom steadily having the life sucked out of me by circumstances completely beyond my control, but you know, bottom lines. They are the fucking WORST.

Sorry for the excessive fuck-words but holy shit I am so annoyed right now!

xoprincessremy
05-10-2017, 07:40 PM
I'm usually on middle-bottom of page 1. Why the fuck am I on bottom of page 4?

TrifilinCamHo
05-10-2017, 07:49 PM
I'm usually on middle-bottom of page 1. Why the fuck am I on bottom of page 4?

Check your ranking page and see what your FPS/bitrate are registering as. There is a known glitch where this is an issue and the site registers them poorly even when there is nothing wrong on your end. As a result your placement tanks. EDIT: GOD. DAMMIT. My FPS is showing as 0 as of right now after I just rebooted and so my placement is fucked as well.

EDIT #2: Ask and ye shall receive! [Said no one ever about Streamate until just now]:

http://i.imgur.com/oIDckLS.jpg

xoprincessremy
05-10-2017, 08:22 PM
Check your ranking page and see what your FPS/bitrate are registering as. There is a known glitch where this is an issue and the site registers them poorly even when there is nothing wrong on your end. As a result your placement tanks. EDIT: GOD. DAMMIT. My FPS is showing as 0 as of right now after I just rebooted and so my placement is fucked as well.

EDIT #2: Ask and ye shall receive! [Said no one ever about Streamate until right now]:

http://i.imgur.com/oIDckLS.jpg

everything is marked as 'excellent' so I have no clue why I'm having placement issues :/

Snowy0Star
05-11-2017, 05:12 AM
their complete lack of transparency and by extension lack of respect for our time as people that give them sixty-five fuckin percent of what we make. It would be nice to at least have a fucking heads up that the site is glitchy so I could maybe opt to do something else with my time instead of sitting in a shitty dead chatroom

i honestly think thats why they dont tell us anything because if they did tell us things were wrong people wouldnt log in and they would lose money. i mean if the site is messing up theyre not going to be making much anyway but anything we can manage to make is more for them so it makes sense (tho highly immoral IMO)

Mare
05-11-2017, 08:06 AM
i honestly think thats why they dont tell us anything because if they did tell us things were wong people wouldnt log in and they would lose money. i mean if the site is messing up theyre not going to be making much anyway but anything we can manage to make is more for them so it makes sense (tho highly immoral IMO)
That's why most days I only give it a half hour and then bounce to somewhere else. FUCK THIS SHIT. I mean you can tell in a half hour if people are coming into your room and spending. When the site is running right I was able to make my daily goal in 2 hours not 3 days.

Glamourmilf
05-11-2017, 08:24 AM
That's why most days I only give it a half hour and then bounce to somewhere else. FUCK THIS SHIT. I mean you can tell in a half hour if people are coming into your room and spending. When the site is running right I was able to make my daily goal in 2 hours not 3 days.

EXACTLY what I do! Because...
48026

Via Flaminia
05-11-2017, 01:36 PM
Anybody here with a Mac? And who is using FMLE? The .dmg file you have for installing it on a Mac doesn't work. Normally, with dmg files you get a popup that lets you drag the program to the applications folder. The FMLE dmg file doesn't have this..... I hope this makes sense but I do not know what to do?

FMLE installation for Mac girls...and this worked for my MacBook Pro (running Sierra) just now...I was so happy - here are the steps:

1) Download Flash Media Live Encoder (newest version 3.2 for Mac) from the Adobe website: fmle.dmg
2) Open it
3) Right click Install
4) Click on Show Package Contents
5) Click on Contents
6) Click on MacOS
7) Go to Finder
8 ) Go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal
9) Drag the Installer from the MacOS folder to the Terminal
10) Press Enter - Install should begin

BiancaNorwood
05-11-2017, 01:38 PM
So, tech got back to my rep about my fps and cpu being all over the place. You want to know what they said? Note: you need to be sitting or not have a full bladder once you read this - you will piss yourself.

My blinds. My blinds are what are causing my glitches.

My...........................blinds.

They also said that my room was dark and that I should have a light behind my computer. Um.....I DO have a light directly behind my laptop. I have my overhead light on as well as a light behind me.

They said that we are not supposed to have anything else running while streaming (Facebook, Twitter, MSN, etc). So, while we sit in an empty room watching guys pop in and out, we can't do anything else.

I. Just. Fucking. Can't.

TrifilinCamHo
05-11-2017, 01:51 PM
My blinds. My blinds are what are causing my glitches.

My...........................blinds.

They also said that my room was dark and that I should have a light behind my computer. Um.....I DO have a light directly behind my laptop. I have my overhead light on as well as a light behind me.


http://persephonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/will-smith-the-fuck.gif

This is probably the best non-solution SM Support has ever given in a dense and storied history of ridiculous bordering on insulting responses. Extra points because they of course still found a way to blame you for it.

imelly21
05-11-2017, 02:04 PM
Im missing gold from my last gold show today + after gold show ended everyone was still there, like they were all in private. The countdown ended ( I saw it) then nothing.They were stuck.

Teddy_Bear
05-11-2017, 06:10 PM
Feast or famine... when the site is glitch free I can't go 5 mins without someone throwing a tip which in turn creates a multiple tip frenzy and the money rolls in... as soon as the site is fucking up the room clears I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs and no one even speaks to me.

As soon as everything stabilises it's back to normal, full room and tips galore. I've been putting it to the test for the past two shifts and it's like clockwork. My placement is still second or third row though so WTFFFFFF?????!!!!!

Also I haven't had an exclusive in nearly 6 hours but they have been going private which is more expensive, another indicator the site is up the wall usually.

#smglitch going strong on Twitter right now so happy to know it's not just me.

imelly21
05-12-2017, 04:19 AM
Im missing gold from my last gold show today + after gold show ended everyone was still there, like they were all in private. The countdown ended ( I saw it) then nothing.They were stuck.

Update : I emailed support yesterday and this morning I looked and the gold is still missing. Its 50 gold that is missing.

EDIT: it was since fixed! Yay

E.S. Camgirl, Ph.D.
05-12-2017, 08:36 AM
There is truth to this, if your lighting is bad your fps will indeed suffer. The other week the lightbulb in my ceiling light went out and I was out of bulbs so I decided to just try and cam like that for the night but without the ceiling light my fps wouldn't go up past a certain (low)point. I had to log off and go buy bulbs. I also keep blackout paper over my bedroom window because for a few hours each day the sun setting through it will really fuck up my lighting even through the closed blinds. If your fps is chronically too low I *would* check your lighting, or if you notice that it's dropping too low during the same time window every day(due to a change in the natural light coming into your room). But if you have the glitch that I think pretty much everyone has where throughout the day your fps will randomly drop I don't think there's anything on our end that we can do about it.

Very true. Contrasts between light and dark spaces, particularly when they change (if you're moving, for example) absolutely affect video quality. These changes are demanding on your bitrates and will likely affect your fps, but I suppose it would depend on your camera and broadcast method. I have black, very shiny hair, and sometimes, especially when I upped the contrast on my webcam, it would dramatically affect my streaming quality. When my hair moved too much, it would glitch, or the SMBroadcaster would give me low calibrations to accommodate. Especially with something like blinds, because they exist in an even grid pattern (whether vertical or horizontal), they can compete with a video grid, which can lead to a problem known as Moiré, which may not be visibly present in your stream, but the competing patterns will affect your video quality.

Streamate has a lot of problems, and the problem could be completely on their end, or a combination of the two, but their response is, technically, absolutely true and worth considering.

bbcakezxo
05-12-2017, 10:42 PM
What other sites are you guys using as backups for SM??? I've absolutely had it with them. I'm always on page 1 and haven't been making shit for money for the past few MONTHS outside of a good day here and there. Luckily I make good money doing indie, but it's so unreliable.