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I've logged on twice today, once during the day and now at night. Both times traffic has been very low and so have potentials, my placement is the same. Also both times my RTT has been spiking like crazy and dropping my bitrate super low each time it does. Whenever there's contests I tend to have the RTT issues along with lower traffic and potentials, but today is really bad which is not surprising because the RTT issue today is the worst I've ever seen it; it's like rapidly cycling the entire time and has dropped my bitrate down into the 10s. There's been times too where my room would be empty for like 90 seconds straight and then like 6 people would magically appear all at once, I definitely think when the RTT is glitching that guys are unable to enter the room.
Tonight the RTT issue magically stopped after like 20 minutes but I was in pvt for pretty much the rest of my time online so I didn't get to see if my traffic improved as a result.
this was basically my experience tonight, except it never got better... i did one show with a reg at the beginning of my night which worked fine, but then literally nothing for three more hours. barely any traffic and no more shows.
i did a speed test and got 75 download / 36 upload, yet my bit rate kept going from yellow to red and my RTT was bouncing back and forth between green and red. i looked fine on the SMB screen but i went and looked at my stream via internet explorer and it was pixelated garbage.
also had regs/customers i recognized popping in and not saying hello and then leaving, which is usually a strong indicator something is wrong with the site, because i know they normally would have chatted.
i was motivated to put in a six hour shift with a decent goal tonight but i could only do half the hours and made less than a quarter of my goal because of this shit. i was also watching the models online via internet explorer as someone suggested -- the most i saw tonight was over 3400. could it be that SM's servers are getting overloaded with this huge influx of models? has it been common for that many models to be online this year/during the pandemic in general, or is it just recently?
my hourly is shit at certain times. its kinda scary but its part of the roller coaster ride of the pandemic. I'm having trouble staying focused. its hard being alone with the only contact being the news, social media and cam
i prettied myself up tonight and landed shows. yay lol
high model numbers hit us this year
I'm suspicious that this bonus (which is quite a large offer of money really if traffic were normal) is being offered because they are testing something major on the site and everything is messed up.
I had a good couple hours and then dead again (eerily dead, not just slow).
Still hoping it might pick up but looking at my money totals, even with the bonus added in I'm not even making my usual hourly.
For me, whenever I am having bitrate issues my quality will always look perfect in my interface and my quality will always say Excellent, but it will be shit when I look at myself through the main page. Every time. And also, as someone who has had all kinds of internet speed issues where I live, whenever my bitrate keeps cycling up and down along with the RTT the issue is not on my end. If my bitrate keeps dropping and staying low = my end, bitrate keeps dropping then going all the way back up and RTT spiking = SM's end.
Yeah 100% on all the issues.
Somehow I kept my hourly decent, but I barely worked what I intended. Really good shows then hella dead. My pandemic hustle is to give them lots of random bursts of time on the days I work, easier to keep the hourly up that way for me. Keeps my sanity and I guess my placement. But that placement did not seem to have an impact the last couple of days. Thankfully taking off the rest of the week. I had like 5 bitch fits
Was this partially because of the new “media manager” ?
Someone gave me lingerie from my wish list. I don't see it showing up but apparently he does. It shows up as gold, in case anyone was wondering.
oh yeah...another slowwwwwwwww day on SM. Well, at least I'm mentally prepared for it for the next few days. I expect it and that helps especially in a bonus/contest week. So...buckle up. It's a slow boat to nowhere today! Maybe I'll be wrong....
Dude, just checked my mail and this member from the 15th, who was silent the whole 9+ min private, tipped GOLD during the show AND tipped 10 GOLD after the show to say thanks.
I spent the first couple minutes asking him what he wanted. He was just silent, so I proceeded to give him a foot show. I was talking dirty the whole time and he was just silent.
I kept doing my thing thinking he was gonna leave in a minute but stayed 9+ minutes lol.
Such a nice guy to have tipped during the show and after without me even knowing what he wanted lol.
just in case anyone wasn't preparing for it to continue to suck for the rest of the month -- after bonus week is over, they will very likely announce a three day contest on the 24th-26th. they've done it every year, as well as another contest on dec 31st through january 1st.
To me this year seems very different though.
December was usually my highest earning month with extra tips with a happy holidays or merry christmas notes, lots of privates. Even with contests and the holidays going on I normally made a lot more than usual throughout the month. Not getting many whales or generous regs so far at all.
December was my highest earning month for years but not this year. When Streamate decided to make this month mandatory snapshot daily to see for a month if we make more money i thought ... yeah, the best month... but i think after this month they can't say the daily profile picture bring more privates. :-))
Anyone having an issue of not having their shows automatically record? I have it set to record automatically. I'm using Chrome if that's any help.
oh i agree. in past years, the 30% bonus plus christmas contest have reliably been some of my highest earning weeks, easily.
i really do believe the majority of why it sucks so bad this year is because of all the pandemic related factors i wrote in another comment. more models, more freeloaders, and less guys with disposable income. streamate does seem to be glitching way more than usual, but with 4000+ models online, that's not too surprising. i hope if they are "working" on anything, it's getting the site more stable, not adding more useless features no one cares about.
i am cautiously optimistic that things will gradually start feeling more normal again as 2021 progresses. hopefully more of the newcomer models will go back to vanilla industries, and more guys will get their jobs back and therefore have more money to spend on us. but it's going to be slowgoing for sure.
I don’t usually complain, but I feel like me sharing my experience this week, might help others feel better and not alone in this graveyard.
I planned a lot of hours for the bonus, currently is Thursday and I’m sitting at 6h online. Why? Cause it sucks and I can’t for the life of me sit more than 2-3h at a time when is so dead. I did make some money, enough to say it was worth the hustle and makeup, but it was all thx to some regulars. Even when I had movement in my room, all of them seemed broke AF and so quiet. What happened to hello or compliments?!
That being said, hang tight, don’t take it personally and don’t ruin your holidays over this. Just a bad week, that’ll eventually pass. I suspect clients are having other priorities (Xmas gifts). I think everything is going to get better before the New Years Eve.
Edit: I used to rock the preholidays week also, but not this year.
Yep, I"m totally expecting those. I hope it's just a few days and not a Dec24-Jan 1 contest.....at least some off days in between would be nice. Took me 6.5 hours to make my $140 goal.....it was AGONY but I STFO..also...
WHERE DO I GET THIS SM WISH LIST THING I keep hearing about?? I don't see it anywhere on my end. Am I blind?
thanks