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[Alisa]

Not sure about the previews still showing after they are all blocked. There could be a bug then. Blocked previews do not appear in the banner.

As explained above, blocked previews do not appear in the banner as long as they are not all blocked. But when you block ALL previews, the banner starts showing random video previews.

Do you still sell those videos on another site? I was planning on buying some of them.

Not at the moment, sorry.

 

[therealpeecee2]

We still feel that these playing previews helps users get a better idea of the profile and their content,

Could have the best of both worlds for not too much work if there was a pause button and it applied to the current browsing session? Pause would give you metrics on how many users (plus users vs logged in users) let them run and on which devices. Or going with the social media site approach, perhaps models could choose one or more images (and/or videos) to use as a header and pick what works for them? I think it's the one size being expected to fit a lot of usage cases that folk have issues with, as with Microsoft trying to crowbar everyone into the same user experience box on tablets/PCs/servers.

It does work pretty well on mobile devices, but the res/compression of the previews and cropped height comes across as low quality on a desktop browser even when the source vids are HD. Appreciate it's tricky when users are either using screens a few inches across or 20+ with not much in between but a max-width on the previews might go a bit towards not blurring them.

Though that showing of blocked previews sounds like something that needs sorting as a priority, otherwise models relying on it to provide a bit more privacy for partners or themselves are going to be forced to pull content.

6) A profile search has been in development,

Cool. The other side of this is that category tags can be a bit too broad to usefully filter by -- eg there's quite a difference between fingering and being fingered. If there was some way of separately flagging whether a vid was solo content or involved multiple people (as some other sites do) that'd help.

Although for some this might be useless, we are still analyzing data and seeing that a lot of people are using this feature.

Including metrics on purchases resulting? It's the sort of thing people can hit without necessarily meaning to.

I'd probably pay attention to it if the thumbnails were large enough to see and didn't have a "sold" sticker over them.

This is coming back (notification of your own activity is now live, All activity is coming soon in next release)

Looks promising. A filter for different types of activity would be handy, and a bit of narrative on what's included.

We have added a spamming flag already, leaving their profile and content still accessible. We no longer ban the model for spamming, we just remove their message privilege

Good to hear, although probably means that another person I had a membership with has left -- in which case, leaving a "Download vids" link on purchase history pages that then silently redirect loops is another usability issue. It's not that I mind that person vanishing, memberships to anything are always a gamble on whether as a customer you'll get value from them and amateur porn careers can be very ephemeral, but silent redirects just don't work well with e-commerce sites. Particularly not if those subscriptions can be higher value purchases; a bit of explanation is warranted.

Cheers as always for making this a dialogue.

 

[Yavin4MFC]

ManyVids, try using HotJar instead of CrazyEgg. Seems to have a lot more functionality, I'm switching to it as well.

 

[ManyVids]

ManyVids, try using HotJar instead of CrazyEgg. Seems to have a lot more functionality, I'm switching to it as well.

Vert interesting indeed. Hopefully its not too late to switch, we just renewed with CrazyEgg.

 

[ManyVids]

Could have the best of both worlds for not too much work if there was a pause button and it applied to the current browsing session? Pause would give you metrics on how many users (plus users vs logged in users) let them run and on which devices. Or going with the social media site approach, perhaps models could choose one or more images (and/or videos) to use as a header and pick what works for them? I think it's the one size being expected to fit a lot of usage cases that folk have issues with, as with Microsoft trying to crowbar everyone into the same user experience box on tablets/PCs/servers.

It does work pretty well on mobile devices, but the res/compression of the previews and cropped height comes across as low quality on a desktop browser even when the source vids are HD. Appreciate it's tricky when users are either using screens a few inches across or 20+ with not much in between but a max-width on the previews might go a bit towards not blurring them.

Though that showing of blocked previews sounds like something that needs sorting as a priority, otherwise models relying on it to provide a bit more privacy for partners or themselves are going to be forced to pull content.


Cool. The other side of this is that category tags can be a bit too broad to usefully filter by -- eg there's quite a difference between fingering and being fingered. If there was some way of separately flagging whether a vid was solo content or involved multiple people (as some other sites do) that'd help.


Including metrics on purchases resulting? It's the sort of thing people can hit without necessarily meaning to.

I'd probably pay attention to it if the thumbnails were large enough to see and didn't have a "sold" sticker over them.


Looks promising. A filter for different types of activity would be handy, and a bit of narrative on what's included.


Good to hear, although probably means that another person I had a membership with has left -- in which case, leaving a "Download vids" link on purchase history pages that then silently redirect loops is another usability issue. It's not that I mind that person vanishing, memberships to anything are always a gamble on whether as a customer you'll get value from them and amateur porn careers can be very ephemeral, but silent redirects just don't work well with e-commerce sites. Particularly not if those subscriptions can be higher value purchases; a bit of explanation is warranted.

Cheers as always for making this a dialogue.

Amazing feedback. The header idea, we have something planned in the future, so for now it will remain as is. No point for us to develop something and change it right after!
We are working on a fix for the blocked previews. Honestly, there are literally less that 0.1% of our models who block all their previews (they usually at least have 1 open preview).
All our metrics have an end goal of purchase, so we add this to our analysis.
The ticker, we have plans to modify it and make the screenshot more visible.
For the activity feed, our first launch will be the simple feed, and we can add a filter as an update (great suggestion and i think we have it already planned)
As for the deleted account vids download option, I will forward to dev and see what they can do.

Always a pleasure!

 

[Yavin4MFC]

Do you ever open up your QA or DEV site to feedback from models or users before pushing out to production?

 

[Rose]

Just a note, I don't allow ANY previews on Clips4Sale or NiteFlirt and those accounts both rake in 4 digits monthly. On ManyVids it's waayyyyyyyyyyy too tedious and time consuming to block every preview so I've allowed them to stay. Not surprisingly, I barely make $100 a month there.

Just something to point out. I'm successful enough to completely support my family on Clips4Sale alone, but my ManyVids earnings are severely lacking. I don't think the problem is me.

Oh and tumblr has completely blocked any of my ManyVids advertisements from posting and no longer allows auto posts from ManyVids. There's no way currently for me to unblock that. It seems tumblr really doesn't like ManyVids.

 

[BraisleeAdams]

@ManyVids I'd love to see more functionality added to the "fund me" section. Now that PBG has moved away from the crowdfunding thing it seems like a perfect opportunity to give us the ability to run decent/real fundraisers. Just being able to reset the amount earned would be nice. Maybe a higher % payout for "fund me" payments? I feel like it could only drive more traffic if girls were advertising that more.

 

[ManyVids]

@ManyVids I'd love to see more functionality added to the "fund me" section. Now that PBG has moved away from the crowdfunding thing it seems like a perfect opportunity to give us the ability to run decent/real fundraisers. Just being able to reset the amount earned would be nice. Maybe a higher % payout for "fund me" payments? I feel like it could only drive more traffic if girls were advertising that more.

We have plans to improve all the other services offered (fundme for example). Unfortunately to maintain the quality of our services, staff, servers and more, and to avoid people taking advantage and funnelling all their sales through fundmes, the % must remain the same site wide for all services.

 

[ManyVids]

Just a note, I don't allow ANY previews on Clips4Sale or NiteFlirt and those accounts both rake in 4 digits monthly. On ManyVids it's waayyyyyyyyyyy too tedious and time consuming to block every preview so I've allowed them to stay. Not surprisingly, I barely make $100 a month there.

Just something to point out. I'm successful enough to completely support my family on Clips4Sale alone, but my ManyVids earnings are severely lacking. I don't think the problem is me.

Oh and tumblr has completely blocked any of my ManyVids advertisements from posting and no longer allows auto posts from ManyVids. There's no way currently for me to unblock that. It seems tumblr really doesn't like ManyVids.

We were generating too many posts on Tumblr, and unfortunately they are not as open as Twitter when it comes to uncensored adult. It seems the wrote our website in their blacklist of tags and links. It seemed they went out of their way to limit the trend as too many models with high traffic were posting links to our adult site :/ It surprised us as well as they say they are indifferent to NSFW content.

As for the income you make on other clipsites, unfortunately there are many variables. Most top models on MV have all vids unblocked.
PS: this coming from peecee2
"- I can understand why models might prefer to restrict previews to "premium" users, but don't get the impression that the big spenders bother with buying premium status. Personally it's usually a case of no preview, no purchase."

 

[ManyVids]

Do you ever open up your QA or DEV site to feedback from models or users before pushing out to production?

We have a large pool of internal testers, but we have played with the idea to open some pipelined features to a small group of chosen members and models

 

[Rose]

We were generating too many posts on Tumblr, and unfortunately they are not as open as Twitter when it comes to uncensored adult. It seems the wrote our website in their blacklist of tags and links. It seemed they went out of their way to limit the trend as too many models with high traffic were posting links to our adult site :/ It surprised us as well as they say they are indifferent to NSFW content.

As for the income you make on other clipsites, unfortunately there are many variables. Most top models on MV have all vids unblocked.
PS: this coming from peecee2
"- I can understand why models might prefer to restrict previews to "premium" users, but don't get the impression that the big spenders bother with buying premium status. Personally it's usually a case of no preview, no purchase."

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. All of my best spenders buy more when they don't have full previews besides a gif, but clearly you've got waaaaaay more experience in this.

 

[DahliaDee]

Pretty bummed about the decline of the site lately to be honest. I used to make a lot more sales for a lot less effort. Now it seems my stuff has been totally buried beneath the hundreds of studios offering massive bukkake videos, and the new header display totally distorts my videos making them look really unappealing.

Also it's been mentioned, but the search function doesn't really work. I typed in "twerking" and ended up with totally unrelated bj videos. Weird.

 

[ManyVids]

We will be improving the search a lot over the next few months. As for twerking, I typed it in as a keywords, and only got twerking vids...[see attachment]

 

[DahliaDee]

Sweet, glad it's working now.

 

[Kradek]

The search confusion is likely because of the dropdown to the left of the search. It defaults to different things depending on how you get on the site and I imagine most people don't even know it's a dropdown. If you click on a link to a video from outside the site, you will land on the video's page and the search defaults to videos. If you go to the root of the site, it defaults to All and will search whatever All means. If you go to a model's profile, the search will default to "MV Girls" and will search for models whose name matches the search.

 

[DahliaDee]

The search confusion is likely because of the dropdown to the left of the search. It defaults to different things depending on how you get on the site and I imagine most people don't even know it's a dropdown. If you click on a link to a video from outside the site, you will land on the video's page and the search defaults to videos. If you go to the root of the site, it defaults to All and will search whatever All means. If you go to a model's profile, the search will default to "MV Girls" and will search for models whose name matches the search.

I had no idea, and that's probably what happened - it must have defaulted to MV Girls because now that I recall it pulled up a bunch of random profiles. Thanks for the tip!

 

[KylieJacobs]

The search confusion is likely because of the dropdown to the left of the search. It defaults to different things depending on how you get on the site and I imagine most people don't even know it's a dropdown. If you click on a link to a video from outside the site, you will land on the video's page and the search defaults to videos. If you go to the root of the site, it defaults to All and will search whatever All means. If you go to a model's profile, the search will default to "MV Girls" and will search for models whose name matches the search.

I agree!

When you go to a model's profile, there needs to be a way to search through that model's content without having to scroll through everything. It makes no sense to have it search "MV Girls" from the model's profile!

 

[Yavin4MFC]

Ditto on the site search, I've gotten confused why it wasn't auto-populating model's names.

 

[yummybrownfox]

As explained above, blocked previews do not appear in the banner as long as they are not all blocked. But when you block ALL previews, the banner starts showing random video previews.

Like you, I'm still hoping they'll do something about this.

Though that showing of blocked previews sounds like something that needs sorting as a priority, otherwise models relying on it to provide a bit more privacy for partners or themselves are going to be forced to pull content.

Exactly. Thank you.

 

[ManyVids]

I agree!

When you go to a model's profile, there needs to be a way to search through that model's content without having to scroll through everything. It makes no sense to have it search "MV Girls" from the model's profile!

We will be pushing this week a quick way to search her content using the global search when you are visiting a profile. This is a first step twowards adding more search features on profiles

 

[KylieJacobs]

We will be pushing this week a quick way to search her content using the global search when you are visiting a profile. This is a first step twowards adding more search features on profiles

Awesome! Thank you!!!!!

 

[JoleneBrody]

Any plans to fix the header previews so the quality isn't so horrendous?
I would also like to suggest that the curser change when hovered over the preview (maybe with a vid title pop up like before) so that it's obvious it's clickable. Right now it's not obvious that it's clickable.

 

[Hairy_punk]

For some reason, manyvids doesn't accept my profile. I tried to email them and ask what the problem was, but they didn't answer. I guess its my ID, but it worked fine for MFC and other camsites..

 

[TeganTrex]

Can you give the blog a prominent spot again? It was a great way to get traffic but even a $50 incentive isn't enough for me to write an article that no one will read because they won't know it's there

 

[ManyVids]

Can you give the blog a prominent spot again? It was a great way to get traffic but even a $50 incentive isn't enough for me to write an article that no one will read because they won't know it's there

In the menu, we tracked clicks and it was extremely low. All views come from our social site mostly.
Almost every post is tweeted to our 80k followers with a direct link

 

[ManyVids]

For some reason, manyvids doesn't accept my profile. I tried to email them and ask what the problem was, but they didn't answer. I guess its my ID, but it worked fine for MFC and other camsites..

Please give me your signup username I will forward it to our support.

 

[ManyVids]

Any plans to fix the header previews so the quality isn't so horrendous?
I would also like to suggest that the curser change when hovered over the preview (maybe with a vid title pop up like before) so that it's obvious it's clickable. Right now it's not obvious that it's clickable.

For now the header quality has no plans to change, but we have discussed about a better quality and hopefully soon implement something. As for the cursor, yes thats possible. I will let our DEV know

 

[Hairy_punk]

Please give me your signup username I will forward it to our support.

Its the same as here, Hairy_punk

 

[ManyVids]

We added back the All Activity in your notifications section (click on the bell on top right on desktop, or in menu on mobile).
We also added a possibility to search by keyword in the search field when on someone's profile (we will work on adding better filters on the profile in the near future).

Hairy_punk you have been approved. Sorry about the delay!

TY all for the suggestions. =)