anyone else having problems accessing sm right now?
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anyone else having problems accessing sm right now?
back, but being very dodgy :(
Aw, bummer >:(
Anyone know if it's ok now?
i noticed that the encoder is pretty laggy today. i don't really have any issues with the encoder usually. also i was just in a 15 min block session and the guy left after 5 min, so i got paid for the whole thing. but that guy just came back into my room afterwards asking me what happend.i told him that i thought that he just left and he said no, that he got kicked out of the system. i hope SM don't take away some of my money from that cuz of the sites's problem. what usually happens with this sort of thing?
This is not looking good. When sites are acting u for too long customers go elsewhere and get comfy on a new site. The once SM has their stuff together they already like it on the other site they moved to. I've seen this happen before. Custies usually don't mind a couple of glitches but when it goes on for a while people get tired of it. We've been talking about it acting up for a while now and its not getting any better. Has anyone gotten a response from CS about this? I would send one but I haven't been on in two weeks because my laptop is busted so can't complain about something 'Im not experiencing lol
streamate is acting up so bad :( normally a gold show i hit really fast now its taking aleast 3trys :( this is ridiculous streamate needs to fix there crap were loosing paying customers cause of this crap gahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! i loved streamate now its a pain n the but and having to work twice as hard
Jesus I thought it was just me. Good to know. I was feeling really off stride today too and my guy is home with the flu. So I may just bunk off the rest of the day and take care of him if the site is being total pants.
Opened my MFC and C4S account today just in case SM is acting wonky for a while. I learned my lesson about putting all my eggs in one basket when MGF froze my account. Hopefully the resolve this issue before it really gets bad
Are you using wifi when streaming? If so, please connect your internet
cable to your computer. Are you trying to trying to stream using the HD
encoder? You can try lowering your bit/frame rate to 600/12. If you're
not streaming in HD, you may try lowering your quality settings? this is
located in
the drop down menu, located on the upper left hand corner of the
performance page, above your chat window.
Also, make sure that you have the latest version of flash.
If this does not help, run a speed test and let us know what the upload
speed is.
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Streamate Performer Support
I finally got a response to the issues I had last Friday/Saturday <stupid lady times so I haven't tried to work since> I told them in my original message that my isp is having no issues, i use wired connection, and always use the encoder without ever having had a single problem, oh yeah and chrome auto updates flashplayer, and all the shizzle on my end was a-ok but stupid CS is useless.... gonna reply with what I told em in the first place i guess and hope in a few days they'll have a more useful explanation... They make it so seem so hard to actually read the e-mails, it'd really save everyone time energy and in this case money geeze. *shakes fist at streamate*
I prolly should post this in the original SM wtf thread but this one was closer to the top and of basically the same nature so hopefully everyone will get my useless update lol
Hm, it seemed to work fine for me today. I wonder if it has to do with that new Adobe update... I never updated mine. I'm afraid it'll screw things up.
^^^
I got the same response late last week when I emailed them about my phone service issues (it either hangs up before I can pick up the call, or within a few seconds after connection.)
I emailed them back letting them know I'm plugged in, everything is updated, and sent in my speed test results. This was the response I received:
Go ahead and double check with your service provider that they are
accepting calls from 12064380241, however just lately we have been
experiencing sitewide issues with the CPS system so that could also be
the issue. If that's the case, we ask for your patience as we work to
resolve the problem.
I don't know if this is related to the issues others have been having or not but I wanted to share in case it's helpful. I don't know what CPS means. I received this email four days ago, haven't been online since but am about to hop on. I hadn't been having issues with lagging that I'm aware of, or customers being booted, but we'll see what tonight brings.
It seemed to be working for me today, in terms of being able to log on, and not seeing too many glitches or issues (I keep streamate open on my laptop while camming on the desktop so I can track the page I'm on and keep an eye on my cam for freezing/lagging/etc). It DID seem to be lagging a tiny bit more than usual, but not a whole lot - maybe a 5-10 sec lag, nothing huge.
BUT there seemed to be NO traffic. I was on for about 3-4hours and made under $30 (WTF????) and despite being on the top row of p3, I rarely had more than 3ppl in my room...and went for minutes at a time without a single person coming in. So weird...I ended up logging off and I'm debating playing around with MFC later this week - see if I can get the hang of that one again....
And I updated everything on my computer earlier this week, so there is nothing new waiting to update. I'm getting a little concerned about SM!
i know wat u mean i worked around 4-5 hrs today n only got 125 i usualy make 45-60 a hr
My placement is increasing at the same rate my traffic is decreasing. I'm not freaking out, but it's an interesting development. I have noticed some of the models quitting the site or drastically cutting their hours.
Oh well, I'll take their regs.
As for block sessions, the customer has two hours to complete the session. Whenever a customer leaves a block session early, I make sure that I'm logged on for the next two hours. After that, it's his loss. As long as you're available to him, SM won't make an issue of it. They've never said anything to me about it, I've always gotten all of my money, and I've done a couple dozen block sessions. There was only one time where I got only a portion of the money. I bitched to them about it (I do things in block sessions that I wouldn't normally do. Make them pay for the whole thing or I'm not offering block sessions EVER again.) The money was in my account within a few hours. Apparently it was a "glitch."
Tech issues... It is extremely rare that you will have an actual warm-blooded, breathing, THINKING human being answer your message. If you get anything other than a cut-and-paste response, expect it to 1. Not make any sense, 2. Not answer the question you have/ resolve your issue, and/or 3. Have NOTHING to do with your inquiry. On the other hand, I've gotten some direct, intelligible responses a few times. It's a gamble. If you REALLY have an issue, keep sending the same message to each department until you get someone who makes sense.
Don't make your message too complicated. Think 2+2=4 instead of 2x2=4. They get confused when you start throwing in higher level thinking. And if it's too abstract or you ask more than one question, you may NEVER get a response.
Sometimes all you can do is just wait and see what happens. I know it sounds crazy. But I've never gotten a helpful, timely response about major technical issues. Anyone around on Halloween '10? They were actually down to 5 models on the WHOLE site at one point. And I handmade my costume. Bummer. Or the time everyone's earnings disappeared a little at a time and then came back a little at a time. And they actually had the balls to be rude in the e-mail response? Fun times.
Hang in there, ladies. SM is a take-it-or-leave-it site. Like buying "AS IS" furniture. I fought that for a loooooong time. I'm not suffering as much now that I'm not fighting as hard. When traffic sucks, I take a break. When the site is messed up, I do some laundry. Some of the chicas I chat with probably think I'm lazy because I sign on and off so much. But you know what? I make goal. And I'm not beating my head against a brick wall quite as much these days.
Traffic wasn't too bad, but there were more lurkers and not as many buying shows. I'm going to sum it up to being a holiday this week and call it a night.
yea right after he got booted out. i went right back into free chat. he came back into my room 1-2 min later and asked me what happened. he asked me what he should do and i told him to contact SM support cuz i had no idea in that situation. i was on for a lil over an hour after that and then i took a break. he probably thought that he would be charged again for taking me prvt, so he obviously didn't know what to do either. i just hope SM don't take a cut of that money for they're mistake, if it wasn't for that i would have been able to finish the prvt.
^^ If they go back into the show within the two hour period, they shouldn't be charged again. But I only ever took exclusive block sessions.
I had one guy who kept pulling me in for a few minutes at a time and it started to make me mad. The 4th time he pulled me in (never asked), I said, "Look, fix your computer issues and THEN come back b/c this is getting annoying." I would normally just go with the flow on it tho. The guy already paid you and he gets his WHOLE 15 minutes (30 min, whatever...) as long as he doesn't spread it out over more than 2 hrs.
If you want to be super safe, e-mail support and ask for specifics. SAVE the e-mail. Then tell the guys what SM said. If they ever give you an issue over giving out incorrect advice, you have the e-mail saved.
In this business, as with every business, you have to cover your own tushie.
Girls...
Use this! It works/helps!
http://downorisitjustme.com/
It lets you know if the server is down or not.
I don't know why SM calls it 'support' because anytime I have to deal with them over any issue with them I am left wanting to pull out my own hair. You'd think if my cam isn't working right than they'd want to get that fixed in a hurry because they are not making money either, but nope.
I am thinking about joining another site but I don't know where else I'd fit in. MFC is just way too competitive and rough and tumble for me, I'd never survive there. I've tried to deal with LJ before and I can't even make it past the registration process because it would keep looping back to the same section over and over again and I could never get past it. I really don't know of many other sites. I guess I will just have to go back through the forums today and research to try and find something else. :(
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Do any of those not have chargebacks? That is the one thing I mainly look for in a camsite.
I was just looking up stuff on cams.com and a lot of girls were saying they weren't paying. That scares the heck out of me!
Ok, so I've been on since I posted originally, see above, and I made $26 and on two separate occasions guys were kicked off mid pvt. There was an error showing on their side. I told them to email support. Tried Gold Shows three times, I was in party chat mode so I'm gonna log in in 30 mins in classic chat, see if that makes a difference in traffic.