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Originally Posted by Winstontoo
(Post 73281)
Has anyone had problems within the last week or so where a models cap will run for a short period of time and end?
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It is yet another "feature" of Cam4 - it isn't really even a NEW "feature", although I have noticed this particular problem seems to be far more prevalent in the last couple of weeks.
It often unceremoniously "dumps" a broadcasting user for NO reason. Believe me, the broadcasters OFTEN complain about it, but have long ago learnt that it is UTTERLY POINTLESS complaining to Cam4 about the technical problems on the site - such queries result in NIL reply, or worse still, cancellation of your account with no warning.
(I'm not kidding: a friend of mine who was a frequent, and quite profitable, broadcaster complained about Cam4's dreadful performance. The first 3 queries got NO reply, the fourth one resulted in them cancelling his account and taking several hundred dollars worth of tokens he had accumulated off him, which he NEVER got back)
Cam4 could win awards for the APPALLING code work on the site. It constantly freezes, disconnects and generally (and annoyingly) malfunctions. The list of defects extends to PAGES in length. Not only does the actual Flash video/audio component freeze and disconnect constantly, but the web site, the chat system, the friends and favourites areas all have MAJOR flaws which surface regularly.
For the last week or so, friends and favourites constantly list people who are supposedly "online" or "broadcasting" who are actually NOWHERE to be found. I even have a couple of people on my list that you can click on the link to their page, and the Cam4 web site says "the profile does not exist", yet 10 minutes later, you can click that SAME link and the profile is back again !
It is far simpler to list what works correctly on their site: NOTHING !!
If I ever had the opportunity to talk to the pin-heads who wrote this site I would have one question for them: "Do you have the courage TO EVEN ADMIT you wrote this ?" (If it were I, there is NO way I would say anything, your reputation as a software writer would be destroyed for life !)
As to recording cams from the site, you have to work FAR harder writing redundancy and recovery routines into recording software to cope with Cam4's erratic and unreliable behaviour.
It is definitely NOT a problem coming from Elgero's command line recorder - which by the way I can confirm works VERY well !
Unfortunately Winstontoo, the pathetic performance of the Cam4 site is just something we will have to live with. Short of them going broke (and that isn't likely to happen any time soon with the extortionate profits they make) we are STUCK with them, and I think we can abandon ANY hope of them ever actually FIXING the site.
It's a pity, it is probably the most popular adult streaming web cam site - they REALLY don't deserve to be !
Calvin.
