View Full Version : STREAMATE - Venting, Complaining, Discussing site issues
amanda121
05-18-2017, 09:47 AM
I'm having problems with flash on SM broadcasting page. It crashes unexpectedly, which can be very annoying during pvt or GS. The page also doesn't load correctly. In Firefox crashes, in Opera and Google Chrome it doesn't work at all. I tried reinstalling browsers, reinstalling flash (I have the latest version), no success. I have allowed flash plugin in browser. Is there anything else I can try?
SuperPookie
05-18-2017, 10:22 AM
0 traffic and when I finally did get a show the C2C feature wouldn't work so I lost it :(.
Sunnylexie
05-18-2017, 11:41 AM
From what I know, bitrate issue was solved. That's what I've been told and mine is ok.
PFFFT fat chance. I heard it from them 3 times and every time it'd strike again after a while, so I stopped bothering at all except sending them a screenshot when I see it happening. Now I just treat it as bad weather. I have nothing to do with it, and there's nothing I can do about it except giving others a heads up.
0 traffic and when I finally did get a show the C2C feature wouldn't work so I lost it :(. Same here. Regs and completely clueless new guys were all I had today.
christylive
05-18-2017, 06:48 PM
0 traffic and when I finally did get a show the C2C feature wouldn't work so I lost it :(.
this was me yesterday... well everyday that i log in to SM.. no traffic and finally when someone CAN stay connected and go priv/exc the cam will work and disconnect and after that won't connect again.....or... it doesn't work at all.. good times
Holly_xoxo
05-18-2017, 07:22 PM
3.5 hours = 4.98$ for me today. Guys kept getting kicked out of private and the one's in free chat were just trying to get free shit. Why do I keep bothering with this site?!
pippapippa
05-18-2017, 07:31 PM
I can't even stream right now because my bitrate is dropping so badly.
TrifilinCamHo
05-18-2017, 08:02 PM
Anyone else having issues with audio/video being out of sync tonight?
I really need to find a backup site.
TrifilinCamHo
05-18-2017, 09:30 PM
Yo, it is a fuckin WEIRD scene on SM tonight. I'm not making anything but I'm like staying on just to see how bad it gets, if that makes sense. A fair amount of these dudes have complained about tech issues and I don't know what the fuck else happening.
Snowy0Star
05-18-2017, 09:42 PM
Yo, it is a fuckin WEIRD scene on SM tonight. I'm not making anything but I'm like staying on just to see how bad it gets, if that makes sense. A fair amount of these dudes have complained about tech issues and I don't know what the fuck else happening.
Im just doing my gold show thing and ppl kept telling me that my cam is choppy .
basically what ur saying is ur still on just for the LOLs ? (because yeah this site is turning into a joke)
TrifilinCamHo
05-18-2017, 09:52 PM
UPDATE: Finally traffic picks up and my last 2 exclusives go as such:
http://i.imgur.com/vLORdFD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rgZK5lX.jpg
ME RN:
https://media.tenor.co/images/267cc37abb0d2ff3dea12c16d882c530/tenor.gif
Sunnylexie
05-18-2017, 10:02 PM
A reg trying to get a pvt.
48072
Snowy0Star
05-18-2017, 10:31 PM
i just got disconnected from a gold show then as soon as i start another one i got disconnected again
EllieGold
05-18-2017, 10:32 PM
If Streamate could take the money they put into their social media (ya know like 3 people right?) and get some more developers to fix some of that buggy code. While they're at it, upgrade those servers because the issues I think are more rooted to those. I'm so over seeing SMGLITCH on twitter. I take a 6 month hiatus from camming and I come back and shits not being fixed STILL. We deserve better than this!
TrifilinCamHo
05-19-2017, 12:01 AM
http://i.imgur.com/2tJaFQg.jpg
I would be well over my goal tonight if shit was actually, you know, working.
kiki399
05-19-2017, 04:29 AM
0 traffic and when I finally did get a show the C2C feature wouldn't work so I lost it :(.
Same thing here also
Sunnylexie
05-19-2017, 05:27 AM
Duh, SM isn't even trying these days. Guess we're supposed to bring our own traffic now.
maddiebabe
05-19-2017, 05:33 AM
Duh, SM isn't even trying these days. Guess we're supposed to bring our own traffic now.
hahaha no fuck them
Holly_xoxo
05-19-2017, 05:48 AM
http://i.imgur.com/2tJaFQg.jpg
I would be well over my goal tonight if shit was actually, you know, working.
I'm trying to remember when all these glitches started happening. I've been off and on SM for 5 years now and I know before the encoders came out, I had no streaming issues but after they were released, I feel like I always had a messed up stream. Has it been going on for years now or does it just feel that long to me?
I'm trying to remember when all these glitches started happening. I've been off and on SM for 5 years now and I know before the encoders came out, I had no streaming issues but after they were released, I feel like I always had a messed up stream. Has it been going on for years now or does it just feel that long to me?
I've been on for 5 years and it seems the site is fucked up more than it works. When it works it's GREAT. But waiting for it to work is just a huge colossal waste of time.
Girly_Girl
05-19-2017, 10:20 AM
Those of you that are also having problems with their bitrate dropping, is it changing at all, like going back up some and then dropping again like it did the last time there was a problem? Or has it just dropped and stayed there without changing?
Like with mine right now, it was 1472 and has dropped to 122 and is NOT going back up at all, its just staying right there!
Last time when there was a problem with bitrate it would bounce up and down but not this time:( I tried resetting my modem but didn't change anything and now my placement is FUCKED. I was on front page around middle and now I am at the top of the second page and barely getting anyone in my room:(
SuperPookie
05-19-2017, 11:37 AM
hahaha no fuck them
Pretty much. If I have to get my own traffic than I'm sending it to LCMS & getting 85%.It's absurd for SM to expect us to do the work that's entailed with indie & get none of the benefits.
Blovely
05-19-2017, 12:02 PM
I'm having problems with flash on SM broadcasting page. It crashes unexpectedly, which can be very annoying during pvt or GS. The page also doesn't load correctly. In Firefox crashes, in Opera and Google Chrome it doesn't work at all. I tried reinstalling browsers, reinstalling flash (I have the latest version), no success. I have allowed flash plugin in browser. Is there anything else I can try?
If Flash isn't working on any of the browsers its probably your computer. If you didn't restart your computer after reinstalling and installing try restarting. If your computer was working fine until now try restoring it to a day or two before you started having problems.
I'm trying to remember when all these glitches started happening. I've been off and on SM for 5 years now and I know before the encoders came out, I had no streaming issues but after they were released, I feel like I always had a messed up stream. Has it been going on for years now or does it just feel that long to me?
I started camming in 2007. SM was my first site and it worked absolutely fine then. Glitches didn't start until they started upgrading everything...i.e. introducing the flash encoder and making models upgrade our computers, cam and internet to Nasa shit lol. More glitches started happening once they introduced Goldshows...or should I say Party Chat since that's what it was called then.
Funny how back then they said they were having server issues and were upgrading. Now flash forward to 2017 and there's still issues even though we've spent mad money on tech they said we needed. Personally I don't think they ever upgraded the servers when they said they did. I think they told models to get i7 computers to take the load and $$$ off of them so that they wouldn't have to upgrade. Like how could you have upgraded your servers back then(I think it was 2013 that they said that) yet there's still disconnects, lagging, freezing, pixelated streams, etc afterwards. Some issues have been fixed but its been years of alot of the same issues. Like literally girls were being disconnected and thrown out of "Party Chat/Goldshow" back then and its still happening now. I can list about 5 issues off of my head that ladies were complaining about then that are still happening now.
hotmodel
05-19-2017, 01:08 PM
Hey ladies...my gf is trying to stream live on streamate without encoders (just the HD High click down option) and a pop up keeps coming up saying connection lost (with options of retry, troubleshoot, and cancel). My internet is super strong (had spectrum come out and even test everything). My pc meets all the specs. New modem. Thanks ladies!
Snowy0Star
05-19-2017, 02:14 PM
might be SMs way of trying to weed out discourage /ppl from using it by not letting performers do it at all have u tried using the in browser broadcaster on ur pc
Blovely
05-19-2017, 04:24 PM
Hey ladies...my gf is trying to stream live on streamate without encoders (just the HD High click down option) and a pop up keeps coming up saying connection lost (with options of retry, troubleshoot, and cancel). My internet is super strong (had spectrum come out and even test everything). My pc meets all the specs. New modem. Thanks ladies!
There are 4 different HD options, I'd try all of them to see if any of them work. If none work try restarting your computer and maybe different browsers. Also if you're using wifi try connecting to the modem via Ethernet cable.
imelly21
05-20-2017, 04:22 AM
I think you are right, Blovely. I dont think they upgraded servers. Maybe they upgraded other things. The space they have on their servers is not capable of sustaining this HD for all the models, all the time, constantly. I have no clue, but I suspect updating to more powerful, more space servers would cost them a fortune. I dont think they did it.
christylive
05-20-2017, 09:56 AM
I'm trying to remember when all these glitches started happening. I've been off and on SM for 5 years now and I know before the encoders came out, I had no streaming issues but after they were released, I feel like I always had a messed up stream. Has it been going on for years now or does it just feel that long to me?
Spring 2015 is when it started for me & has gotten progressively worse. At that time I believe that was before it spread to everyone else (including top row models, every other page models) . At first I thought maybe it was time to call it quits and that I wasn't poppin like I thought i was. I actually put in the hours & effort to make what I was making and like magic my traffic went from decent to almost nonexistent over the course of a month and stayed that way. My last decent check was April 2015. I cammed full time from when I started up until last winter. It's unbearable to cam on that platform most days now. I still log on a few days per week but anything beyond that is a nitemare and stroke waiting to happen. And as others have mentioned, it's important to have other eggs in our baskets (clips, text/phone,Skype etc) .. I'm sure I'm not alone but the first 1 1/2 years on SM for me I only did SM so once things changed I was in for a rude awakening. When bad shifts outweighed the good shifts is when I learned the importance of having multiple eggs (hustles). We all have different daily goals and quotas so the amount it affects one model may make the world of difference to the next...
christylive
05-20-2017, 10:19 AM
Same thing here also
Same here. So convenient huh!?
christylive
05-20-2017, 10:34 AM
Maybe girls like me are just getting weeded out. Almost never fails when my guys are dislodged from my free chat - in the rare instance they do come back they say "wow that's weird I was talking to you and ended up in another models room" can't tell you how many times in a month guys reach out to me on social networking platforms like hey I was trying to get a show but kept getting booted into another models room and of course I ask questions after it's happened countless times cause eventually you begin to wonder ... when I ask which model it's almost always a studio girls room he ended up in. We're just chess pieces on the playing board anyways... And with SM 0 communication it's easy to have theories of what you think is going on *shrugs* (chucks another egg in basket)
anonymous camgirl
05-20-2017, 06:42 PM
I just talked to a guy who said he hasn't been on SM since the new layout which was the start of the glitches I think?... now he is a CB loser!
I'm trying to remember when all these glitches started happening. I've been off and on SM for 5 years now and I know before the encoders came out, I had no streaming issues but after they were released, I feel like I always had a messed up stream. Has it been going on for years now or does it just feel that long to me?
anonymous camgirl
05-20-2017, 06:46 PM
Let's see.. I have been on sm since 2009 and other cam sites since 2003... so whenever I seem to be having a good week.. here comes a bad day, this is the first good week I have had in awhile and yesterday? I made .70.. not one tip, not one private. NOTHING.. I have noticed I am only ALLOWED to make a certain amount of money and then I struggle to make more .. it's very strange isn't it? In my case I work on 10 cam sites so my upper limit that I am allowed to make is only $700 a week.. that's about it.. I could work more hours.. charge less, be more charming.. but there will always be a few days peppered with a few bucks for the day and no more to make sure I don't make more.. I don't belive I conjured this up in my head.. I am privy to knowing that sites control how much models make..
Maybe girls like me are just getting weeded out. Almost never fails when my guys are dislodged from my free chat - in the rare instance they do come back they say "wow that's weird I was talking to you and ended up in another models room" can't tell you how many times in a month guys reach out to me on social networking platforms like hey I was trying to get a show but kept getting booted into another models room and of course I ask questions after it's happened countless times cause eventually you begin to wonder ... when I ask which model it's almost always a studio girls room he ended up in. We're just chess pieces on the playing board anyways... And with SM 0 communication it's easy to have theories of what you think is going on *shrugs* (chucks another egg in basket)
kamiliam
05-21-2017, 12:13 AM
so I now have the bitrate drop...don't know what to do. was great a couple of hours ago
Sunnylexie
05-21-2017, 01:42 AM
Maybe girls like me are just getting weeded out. Almost never fails when my guys are dislodged from my free chat - in the rare instance they do come back they say "wow that's weird I was talking to you and ended up in another models room" can't tell you how many times in a month guys reach out to me on social networking platforms like hey I was trying to get a show but kept getting booted into another models room and of course I ask questions after it's happened countless times cause eventually you begin to wonder ... when I ask which model it's almost always a studio girls room he ended up in. We're just chess pieces on the playing board anyways... And with SM 0 communication it's easy to have theories of what you think is going on *shrugs* (chucks another egg in basket)
I have a confirmation for one part of your theory: I've totally had people tell me they were trying to get to someone else's room but ended up in mine somehow. I'm not with a studio, however, neither am I a porn star or a top earner on SM. More than that, I'm a niche model and don't really want any guys in my room who aren't into that specific fetish. So my guess is SM got nothing against you, they just fucked their shit up again.
Way to go. Just logging back in and I see the calendar button is green. Go to see what's going on and there'
s a handjob and dick sucking in free chat. No countdown no nothing. wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
maddiebabe
05-21-2017, 11:04 AM
Calendar button is green what?
h0ttie
05-21-2017, 03:00 PM
sooooo many disconnects, i know its not me cuz other sites are connected fine
Sunnylexie
05-22-2017, 06:53 AM
Been fucking DEEEAAAAAD today. Won't be surprised if the LJ guy they hired has actually been working on making SM sink as LJ's competitor site lol.
imelly21
05-22-2017, 09:06 AM
Been fucking DEEEAAAAAD today. Won't be surprised if the LJ guy they hired has actually been working on making SM sink as LJ's competitor site lol.
Oh i like your conspiracy theory haha
PennyJ
05-23-2017, 06:33 AM
Any theories? - yesterday was REALLY busy for me, lots of traffic, decent amount of spenders. I log in today and theres barely any traffic and zero spenders.
WHY? I dont get it.
Yesterday I made double my daily goal, is there some kind of earnings cap? Like do they see you doing good and chuck you on a shit server or something like that, when you earn over a specific amount? That's what it feels like, its so maddening.
xxtinamariexx
05-23-2017, 07:46 AM
Oh look I'm on page 3!!! SAME PAGE WITH GUYS!!! whoohoo great last few days of working before summer break!!! yea fuck you ... I don't care who googles me, who finds my skype I will leave it on loud.. I will call guys on it... I DON'T CARE!
imelly21
05-23-2017, 08:57 AM
Why is this happening and is this why the placement drops? Im doing calibration with the normal ( and needed 1280x 720, and ration 16:9 ) and if you look below, it says it calibrated at 800 x 448
Edit: Im wasting so much time with this. Trying and trying again! different steps. What a waste of life !
imelly21
05-23-2017, 09:15 AM
Now I can;t even attempt to calibrate. I get this over and over, when I lick Calibration.
Edit: Im typing here now, so my internet is fine.
Edit 2: Turns out my internet was wacky, I just rebooted my modem and I am redoing the calibration.
Does anyone know what are these stream #1, #2 #3 #4 #5 mean?
JackAlexander
05-23-2017, 03:38 PM
Oh look I'm on page 3!!! SAME PAGE WITH GUYS!!! whoohoo great last few days of working before summer break!!! yea fuck you ... I don't care who googles me, who finds my skype I will leave it on loud.. I will call guys on it... I DON'T CARE!
I have just found myself on the middle of page two... that never happens. Comcast had a FLEET of trucks all over the neighborhood yesterday, I wonder if my net is screwed... rebooting everything now and fingers crossed.
I get off my ass, deal with my business, get pretty, get set up and get int he mood and tech issues... it feel like being stood up on a date lololol
maddiebabe
05-23-2017, 10:37 PM
I keep losing time online although I have been doing nothing but putting in my time since my vacation. These ass clowns need to stop fucking with my shit and fix their site.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
05-23-2017, 10:52 PM
Y'all let me tell you something that happened tonight. I put in some time on SM and it was like meh. So I'm bored looking in rooms because there were people on the first page I'd never seen before. I get to one room and I was like Woa how she gonna make money with that grainy ass cam? This is what I'm thinking to myself. And then I go to another room it was clear. Then another room and I'm SMDH How these chicks trying to make money like this? So THEN I decide to check my own room and OOOPS I was grainy too! We all looked like a VHS straight out of the 80's.
Sunnylexie
05-24-2017, 01:00 AM
I'm sitting at the bottom page 3 right now, and my feed is 100% fine. I've messaged the support with screenshots and all, but pretty sure they've been getting tons of messages like mine and not giving a rat's ass. And yes, the first page is full of people I've never seen there, and the girls I used to see on there are 2 or 3 pages below. Many of the first page models look pixelated, though their placement is still high. The site is so fucked up, and there's probably no point trying to figure out a reason or regularity behind it, because there's definitely more than just one thing broken.
Holly_xoxo
05-24-2017, 04:57 AM
Y'all let me tell you something that happened tonight. I put in some time on SM and it was like meh. So I'm bored looking in rooms because there were people on the first page I'd never seen before. I get to one room and I was like Woa how she gonna make money with that grainy ass cam? This is what I'm thinking to myself. And then I go to another room it was clear. Then another room and I'm SMDH How these chicks trying to make money like this? So THEN I decide to check my own room and OOOPS I was grainy too! We all looked like a VHS straight out of the 80's.
This is my big worry these days. I've seen so many rooms look pixelated or the audio is wayyyy out of sync. I check my room from a different browser once in awhile and look fine but then I get people telling me the stream is bad. I had two regs keep bouncing in and out of my room for a few days and finally when they hi, I asked why they'd been doing that. Their answer was that my room was either kicking them out or I was frozen when they came in.
I almost feel like it's a waste of time to go on now because what's the point in sitting there for hours, making a few dollars and never knowing if your stream was crap or not.
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
05-24-2017, 05:18 AM
This is my big worry these days. I've seen so many rooms look pixelated or the audio is wayyyy out of sync. I check my room from a different browser once in awhile and look fine but then I get people telling me the stream is bad. I had two regs keep bouncing in and out of my room for a few days and finally when they hi, I asked why they'd been doing that. Their answer was that my room was either kicking them out or I was frozen when they came in.
I almost feel like it's a waste of time to go on now because what's the point in sitting there for hours, making a few dollars and never knowing if your stream was crap or not.
The grainy cams were in Chrome. When I looked in IE my stream was good. It started out fuzzy but cleared up in seconds. But in Chrome just about everyone looked like garbage. Now there were a few models that I think it was their equipment and internet because they still had issues even in IE. I actually have less issues with dropped frames when I stream from IE vs. Chrome. I had guys say hello and then immediately leave the room right after. And I had to use the pause button trick to get an exclusive to go through. The box popped up to accept and then he went into limbo. When I paused and unpaused really quickly he popped into the room. The other day when I worked I had three shows and they all ended with customer must contact support. I can't be sure if that's when they need to up their limit or what?
Snowy0Star
05-24-2017, 05:31 AM
The grainy cams were in Chrome. When I looked in IE my stream was good. It started out fuzzy but cleared up in seconds. But in Chrome just about everyone looked like garbage. Now there were a few models that I think it was their equipment and internet because they still had issues even in IE. I actually have less issues with dropped frames when I stream from IE vs. Chrome. I had guys say hello and then immediately leave the room right after. And I had to use the pause button trick to get an exclusive to go through. The box popped up to accept and then he went into limbo. When I paused and unpaused really quickly he popped into the room. The other day when I worked I had three shows and they all ended with customer must contact support. I can't be sure if that's when they need to up their limit or what?
It seems like a lot of people are having a lot of technical issues using Chrome now I think we all just need to start trying to get people to use IE when they want to go on SM. IMO its going to be a pain in the ass for us and act a parrot -squak chrome cant run SM anymore squak use IE instead now squak - and for them to have to start using a specail browser just for one site. The Chrome issue has been on going for a think close to a month now and it was when they rolled out the new layout IIRC. If its been like this for this long I dont think theyre changing it back or doing anything about it anytime soon.
xxtinamariexx
05-24-2017, 05:44 AM
I noticed even after being on page three when normally on page one.. it took about an hour before I was back on page one and back in my normal placement, I don't think this has anything to do with chrome, because if that was the case wouldn't we all just sit in the bad places to begin with? would it fluctuate so much? today's my last day camming normal since my kids will be out of school so its not going to matter to me much any more. and I don't know if I'm going to come back. I can see by my taxes what camming was when I started 5 years ago and what it has dropped down to. I am tired of giving my time to sm when we get nothing but issues with the site with them not caring. and them rolling out stupid "improvements" that don't mean much of anything to us.
I hope they do improve things, but they haven't yet, they are loosing good customers every day, guys are saying it. they are going elsewhere, and I don't see the new ones spending like the old customers do... but maybe thats just me