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I'm in the top 800 and have made a whopping $140.00 these past few months, my friends. What a time to be alive.

Also so far I've gotten 2 requests on my MV wall for custom videos. I would LOVE to have more of these, however I almost never check my wall! So I get these offers like a week late. I wish there was an option to notify the model via email when someone writes on their wall, though it looks like you can't edit your notifications.

Some of my MFC regulars have told me their opinion on ManyVids, and they find the site mildly annoying. Lots of things like you have to have an avatar before you buy a girl's porn and all the intensity ratings which IMO are silly. Yeah this is a 4way gangbang...you think it's going to be softcore?

I originally signed up because I could send an MV link to my videos, but now that I know that people have to sign up to download that link, I've switched over to Dropbox. I've had members not buy anymore videos because I sent them MV links :woops:

Also you can't put "choke" in any description and you can't have a video where the model is completely tied up. Against Da Rulez. But piss and incest are fine. Oh and pissing on a hotel carpet is totally fine (completely disgusting, and since I assume they banned choking and full restraint because they are worried about consent & safety....well there you go, the poor hotel maid never consented to cleaning your piss out of a carpet now did they?)

Yeah...and anyone else notice that MV has like, SO MANY incest videos? This is my first clipsite so maybe that's the norm? But like..there are so many...
Incest/taboo is pretty big. You want to see what's out there, hit clips4sale.
 
Something I mentioned in models only is I think the manyvids review system is beyond overkill. You're not even asked this many in depth questions when reviewing a movie or something on Yelp or trip advisor. It's led people to seem to believe they're getting professionally shot studio porn which a main chunk of the girls there are amateur clip girls like myself. I just don't like it as it creates a pretentious vibe with guys who aren't satisfied by the most minuscule things
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@Carmita Bonita A lot of that is extremely unnecessary and quite insulting. "Make up" I don't need to wear makeup. The effort invested in decor? How can you accurately rate that? We're amateurs, the point is to look amateur. Originality of location is ridiculous because there is only so many places a single model can film legally. And the dirty talking one is extremely unnecessary. I don't do dirty talking, because sex doesn't require dirty talking. So why put it in a rating when it's not required? I think the person who made the review system need to understand and take into consideration this is amateur porn, not Hollywood.
 
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@Carmita Bonita A lot of that is extremely unnecessary and quite insulting. "Make up" I don't need to wear makeup. The effort invested in decor? How can you accurately rate that? We're amateurs, the point is to look amateur. Originality of location is ridiculous because there is only so many places a single model can film legally. And the dirty talking one is extremely unnecessary. I don't do dirty talking, because sex doesn't require dirty talking. So why put it in a rating when it's not required? I think the person who made the review system need to understand and take into consideration this is amateur porn, not Hollywood.
This is so spot on! I mean not all girls can afford fancy lighting or new decor. And originality of plot? How many of us have school girl, dildo riding and dildo blow job videos? Judging on preview photo and title as well? It's just ridiculous. A huge amount of us shoot at our house in our living room. I heard reviews can improve rank but honestly I don't think it's being taken into consideration that men want to just wank and watch a video..not get a lengthy survey about it after. I have no idea why the simple 5 star rating system was taken away in favor for this. I do like manyvids a lot but anyone can see the system is excessive for both performers and customers
 
Something I mentioned in models only is I think the manyvids review system is beyond overkill. You're not even asked this many in depth questions when reviewing a movie or something on Yelp or trip advisor. It's led people to seem to believe they're getting professionally shot studio porn which a main chunk of the girls there are amateur clip girls like myself. I just don't like it as it creates a pretentious vibe with guys who aren't satisfied by the most minuscule things
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@Carmita Bonita A lot of that is extremely unnecessary and quite insulting. "Make up" I don't need to wear makeup. The effort invested in decor? How can you accurately rate that? We're amateurs, the point is to look amateur. Originality of location is ridiculous because there is only so many places a single model can film legally. And the dirty talking one is extremely unnecessary. I don't do dirty talking, because sex doesn't require dirty talking. So why put it in a rating when it's not required? I think the person who made the review system need to understand and take into consideration this is amateur porn, not Hollywood.

This is so spot on! I mean not all girls can afford fancy lighting or new decor. And originality of plot? How many of us have school girl, dildo riding and dildo blow job videos? Judging on preview photo and title as well? It's just ridiculous. A huge amount of us shoot at our house in our living room. I heard reviews can improve rank but honestly I don't think it's being taken into consideration that men want to just wank and watch a video..not get a lengthy survey about it after. I have no idea why the simple 5 star rating system was taken away in favor for this. I do like manyvids a lot but anyone can see the system is excessive for both performers and customers
I agree 100%. It should be noted, every category has a "N/A" option. I use it liberally when I review.

I tend to only leave in a review-able part if its relevant to the vid. If it actually has special effects, then I will rate make-up. If dirty talking was in the video, then I rate the dirty talk, so on and so forth. Still, it's all a bit much.
 
@ManyVids I think everyone who posted previously about the reviewing system expressed the issue very well, so I have really nothing to add. I just wanted to know, has it ever been brought up with the team? Are there plans to refine it?
 
I'd like to know why all the pictures that get posted on the articles have the watermarks removed and why there have been a few very noticeable tattoo alterations. It seems very odd and not smart for the site in my opinion. If those images get stolen and there's no watermark, then people who come across those images will have no way to trace them back to ManyVids to purchase videos.......

Just my two cents because I rather liked my foot the way it was.
 
Anyone who gets their check by snailmail get theirs yet? I'm just wondering if mine got lost in the mail or if its late, I've never had it be this late before. I really need the money so I don't know how long to wait until I contact them to reissue it.

My check just came today.
 
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@ManyVids I think everyone who posted previously about the reviewing system expressed the issue very well, so I have really nothing to add. I just wanted to know, has it ever been brought up with the team? Are there plans to refine it?
Heya Maya! We have so many amazing features coming up in order to help you all make more sales, organise your content better, and so on, that this topic gets pushed back. We have discussed about it and have not yet come up with a final solution on how it should be changed if it all. We get a constant flow of improvement suggestions and have to prioritize according to how much of an impact it can have for you all
 
I'd like to know why all the pictures that get posted on the articles have the watermarks removed and why there have been a few very noticeable tattoo alterations. It seems very odd and not smart for the site in my opinion. If those images get stolen and there's no watermark, then people who come across those images will have no way to trace them back to ManyVids to purchase videos.......

Just my two cents because I rather liked my foot the way it was.
Very good point I will bring it up with our blog team tomorrow!
 
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I honestly just want a way to reset my "fund me" so I could use it more than once and make it a little more relevant. Now that PBG isn't really a crowdfunding site anymore I feel like this is a great opportunity to boost the "fund me" part of your site. Maybe allow us to receive 80% of donations made there too?
 
The site is useless since the new banner crashes my browser as soon as I open a profile. Others have similar issues.

Also, how come the banner shows previews even if all our video previews are blocked? No means no, or something like that.
Your locks on video previews are working from my end.
 
Your locks on video previews are working from my end.
I think you misunderstood. I said "the BANNER shows previews even if all our video previews are blocked".
My previews are not all blocked at the moment but I tried blocking them all to make the banner stop playing, thus maybe allowing me to use the site normally. When all my previews were blocked, the banner still played random vids. Which I really don't agree with.
 
Hey ManyVids, do you have a cheat sheet of dimensions/times for previews, banners at the top, profile picture, etc? I've personally heard one cam girl complain that her vid previews don't sync right anymore and would like to redo them.
 
Hopefully some useful feedback based on recent (ish) changes to the site. Generally it feels like whoever is designing the site doesn't actually use the site. A lot of what's been done is "pretty" but useless.
  • First, the giant, completely useless, model header on every model and member's profile. I get it. It's pretty. Some designer probably splooshed while making it. Except, videos are often distorted when viewed in it. It completely crashes Chrome's video if it is left up for very long leaving you with a giant green or black void until you refresh the page. Worst, I guess it's intended to entice me to buy a particular video, but there is no link to that video! The worst example of this is on the member's profile, where three seemingly random model videos are displayed, but no indication of the model's name or which video it is! You've dedicated as much as 50% of your interface (on my screen) to something that only causes me frustration.
  • I was not initially a huge fan of the recently sold videos marquee, but after using the site a while, I did find a lot of videos that I ended up purchasing from it. It didn't take up much room and I had ample time to click a link as it slowly scrolled across the screen. You've replaced it with the toasts at the bottom of the page, which are worse from a UX perspective in pretty much every way. First, it's an annoying constant movement at the bottom of the page. Each video is only shown for 3 seconds. I literally have to sit there and watch it so that I can see videos that I might be interested in and then click it before it's hidden and the next one is shown. So essentially you've taken away a feature I sometimes used and replaced it with a useless one I need to hide.
  • There is no longer an indication on a model's profile which videos I have already bought. The video listing used to display a "download" link for videos I had already bought and an "add to cart" link for videos I had not. Now, it always lists "add to cart" and I have to click on that link to get the "hey dummy you already bought that" message. That's really annoying, especially when I'm on a model profile with potentially 100+ videos.
As far as other issues go, you've never addressed the problem with your "complete reviews", that being, nobody wants to fill out a fucking ten page review for a porn video. And yet, model's are forced to incentivize full reviews because you base ranking on it. That means I feel bad about it, but not bad enough to ever actually go through that crazy fucking process. Issues like this and your pay to win contests have led a couple of models I follow to leave your site entirely, which just makes my porn purchasing life more difficult because now I have to go to multiple sites, but more importantly for you, sites that are not ManyVids.

I've spent a lot of money on ManyVids and I liked that the vast majority of models I am interested in already had or were creating accounts on your site. But with models now leaving and your usability going to hell, I'm really looking at spending my dollars elsewhere.

Finally, a suggestion. It would be nice if we had the ability to search videos within a given model's profile. A lot of times I find a model I like, she has a hundred videos and I want to know if she has videos that are tagged with X.
 
Hopefully some useful feedback based on recent (ish) changes to the site. Generally it feels like whoever is designing the site doesn't actually use the site. A lot of what's been done is "pretty" but useless.
  • First, the giant, completely useless, model header on every model and member's profile. I get it. It's pretty. Some designer probably splooshed while making it. Except, videos are often distorted when viewed in it. It completely crashes Chrome's video if it is left up for very long leaving you with a giant green or black void until you refresh the page. Worst, I guess it's intended to entice me to buy a particular video, but there is no link to that video! The worst example of this is on the member's profile, where three seemingly random model videos are displayed, but no indication of the model's name or which video it is! You've dedicated as much as 50% of your interface (on my screen) to something that only causes me frustration.
  • I was not initially a huge fan of the recently sold videos marquee, but after using the site a while, I did find a lot of videos that I ended up purchasing from it. It didn't take up much room and I had ample time to click a link as it slowly scrolled across the screen. You've replaced it with the toasts at the bottom of the page, which are worse from a UX perspective in pretty much every way. First, it's an annoying constant movement at the bottom of the page. Each video is only shown for 3 seconds. I literally have to sit there and watch it so that I can see videos that I might be interested in and then click it before it's hidden and the next one is shown. So essentially you've taken away a feature I sometimes used and replaced it with a useless one I need to hide.
  • There is no longer an indication on a model's profile which videos I have already bought. The video listing used to display a "download" link for videos I had already bought and an "add to cart" link for videos I had not. Now, it always lists "add to cart" and I have to click on that link to get the "hey dummy you already bought that" message. That's really annoying, especially when I'm on a model profile with potentially 100+ videos.
As far as other issues go, you've never addressed the problem with your "complete reviews", that being, nobody wants to fill out a fucking ten page review for a porn video. And yet, model's are forced to incentivize full reviews because you base ranking on it. That means I feel bad about it, but not bad enough to ever actually go through that crazy fucking process. Issues like this and your pay to win contests have led a couple of models I follow to leave your site entirely, which just makes my porn purchasing life more difficult because now I have to go to multiple sites, but more importantly for you, sites that are not ManyVids.

I've spent a lot of money on ManyVids and I liked that the vast majority of models I am interested in already had or were creating accounts on your site. But with models now leaving and your usability going to hell, I'm really looking at spending my dollars elsewhere.

Finally, a suggestion. It would be nice if we had the ability to search videos within a given model's profile. A lot of times I find a model I like, she has a hundred videos and I want to know if she has videos that are tagged with X.
When I search the word romantic into MV's video search, videos with the word romantic in their title don't come up anymore.
 
When I search the word romantic into MV's video search, videos with the word romantic in their title don't come up anymore.

I wonder if they want to encourage/discourage keyword stuffing.

So this all sounds like a discussion needs to take place between the website developer and the website designer, with a LOT of UX/UI work going into it. I know they use GA, wonder if they use CrazyEgg or other software to track how users actually behave on the site.

Golden rule: the instant you say "they can just", you have failed as a designer.
 
Hopefully some useful feedback based on recent (ish) changes to the site. Generally it feels like whoever is designing the site doesn't actually use the site. A lot of what's been done is "pretty" but useless.

I think you've hit the nail on the head with all of those points. Having been on the site for about a year through several phases of redesign it doesn't feel as if changes get any real UAT and playing around with something that's an income stream for sellers who may not be in the best circumstances leaves rather a bad taste in the mouth. I've been involved with software projects on the developing and auditing sides, and testing is something that the most successful projects spend a lot of time on.

What's below is stuff I've mostly fed back already but it'd be interesting to know if others feel similarly. Sorry for the stream of consciousness bullet pointing.

Preview/vid related bits;
- On your first point of auto playing video headers I've blocked the header vids specifically (so that there's just a grey box, and it takes up less vertical space) and turned off HTML5 video autoplay, or would honestly have stopped using the site. The mini-preview-on-hover for thumbnails is nice, but anything auto play is obnoxious and causes problems with desktop/laptop browsers.
- As you say, anywhere there's a preview vid or image it should be possible to click through to that model (and a real click that allows users to right-click and open in another tab, not fake javascript type links).
- Using the same "card" type frame that shows a model's avatar, name and location on every vid whilst on their own page is a waste of space.
- Agree on the ticker, although I did used to block it because it didn't play nicely with Chrome/Opera... a lot of sellers have commented on reduced visibility since it's gone.
- I've clicked around far less since the right-hand pane showing a live feed of new video releases has gone. That was the main thing that kept my interest rather than the ticker.
- The toast, if that's what's called, is worse than useless... although at least they seem to have moved it from the left to the right so that it doesn't appear over other content on a desktop browser.
- Yeah... no cloud tags, category or name filters or search functions once you're on a model's page; the interface is clunky for sellers with more than a few videos. For example, if a model frequently releases blowjob, anal and g/g clips it would be useful if the model page showed their most-used tags and customers could use that already-existing information to filter to.
- 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.
- Model pages no longer showing which vids have been purchased seems to have led to instances of to duplicate transactions, buyers being refunded without clear explanation to sellers, and consequent friction all round.

File/download management;
- Video filenames don't include model names as a prefix when saving.
- The "3 downloads and they're gone" approach is like a red rag to a bull on occasions when CloudFront is unreliable and drops connections. Customer support don't seem to understand or have anything to do with the webhosting side of things. I can understand why unlimited downloads aren't offered, but other sites handle this better by telling the customer exactly how many downloads are considered to have been used.
- Some of the "purchase history" pages (which have replaced the user's library) still don't show all entries because developers seem to have hardcoded cut offs. It means that vids are essentially lost and can't be downloaded or reviewed, which is inexcusable and maddening -- in particular a lot of models will do deals as part of which they generate links to grant vids to a user, which show up on the same page as free vids, so I don't think regular users are unlikely to hit that cut off. Paginating the lists (or a "click for more" and infinite scroll option to suit mobile devices) would be a simple fix.

Interface in general;
- Showing a tiny "blocked" tile in the corner of the page or silently redirecting the user to the main vids page if a model has been suspended / content is blocked for your area / a vid has been removed isn't exactly good UI. A page with better explanations and a "you might want to visit instead" links/previews underneath would be better.
- If a model has been suspended for spamming or whatever, punishing users that have subscribed to their content by making them unable to view the model's video listings is a poor experience for customers and one that reflects badly on MV rather than the model.

Contests and promotion;
- They might have found a balance now with the weekly schedules, but running new and constant contests over the summer that favoured already highly selling models seemed to have had a disproportionate impact on others who were selling. Since certain periods are already slow due to normal variation in customer spending that should be expected by anyone running an online sales operation, promotions should be considered on that basis.
- The way reviews are handled is definitely overkill, and some of the rating categories a bit ridiculous. The one people mention the most relates to "unexpected ending" which isn't usually considered a plus in porn.
- There's no way to follow models and see a feed of new releases from those models... for that, you need to follow people on Twitter. And once you're on Twitter, sales are often on other sites or direct. Not sure why MV are apparently so happy to leave money on the table like that.

Overall the MV team seem receptive to comments and I know have fixed some things as a result, but with favourite sellers leaving I'm more there for a few existing membership subscriptions at this point.
 
There's no way to follow models and see a feed of new releases from those models... for that, you need to follow people on Twitter. And once you're on Twitter, sales are often on other sites or direct. Not sure why MV are apparently so happy to leave money on the table like that.
This one is huge. I waste so much time on the site clicking to model profiles just to see if they posted a new video.

Showing a tiny "blocked" tile in the corner of the page or silently redirecting the user to the main vids page if a model has been suspended / content is blocked for your area / a vid has been removed isn't exactly good UI. A page with better explanations and a "you might want to visit instead" links/previews underneath would be better.
I've run across this as well. Models that have blocked my region appear in lists but I'm not allowed to open those links. I typically open a lot of new tabs when browsing and I would come to a tab that I had opened that landed me on the main page and never understood why until one time I clicked on one without opening a new tab and noticed the tiny red message that goes way after 3 seconds.

In praise of MV, I agree, they have definitely listened in the past to suggestions and the support staff has resolved purchasing issues I've had quickly. I hope their next iteration will resolve some of the bigger complaints about recent changes.
 
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I think you misunderstood. I said "the BANNER shows previews even if all our video previews are blocked".
My previews are not all blocked at the moment but I tried blocking them all to make the banner stop playing, thus maybe allowing me to use the site normally. When all my previews were blocked, the banner still played random vids. Which I really don't agree with.

Yes, I do not like this at all either...
 
I wonder if they want to encourage/discourage keyword stuffing.

So this all sounds like a discussion needs to take place between the website developer and the website designer, with a LOT of UX/UI work going into it. I know they use GA, wonder if they use CrazyEgg or other software to track how users actually behave on the site.

Golden rule: the instant you say "they can just", you have failed as a designer.
I'm still having issues with their search results. When I typed in the word boobs I got videos of blowjobs and cumshots.
Not cool MV,not cool.
 
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Hopefully some useful feedback based on recent (ish) changes to the site. Generally it feels like whoever is designing the site doesn't actually use the site. A lot of what's been done is "pretty" but useless.
  • First, the giant, completely useless, model header on every model and member's profile. I get it. It's pretty. Some designer probably splooshed while making it. Except, videos are often distorted when viewed in it. It completely crashes Chrome's video if it is left up for very long leaving you with a giant green or black void until you refresh the page. Worst, I guess it's intended to entice me to buy a particular video, but there is no link to that video! The worst example of this is on the member's profile, where three seemingly random model videos are displayed, but no indication of the model's name or which video it is! You've dedicated as much as 50% of your interface (on my screen) to something that only causes me frustration.
  • I was not initially a huge fan of the recently sold videos marquee, but after using the site a while, I did find a lot of videos that I ended up purchasing from it. It didn't take up much room and I had ample time to click a link as it slowly scrolled across the screen. You've replaced it with the toasts at the bottom of the page, which are worse from a UX perspective in pretty much every way. First, it's an annoying constant movement at the bottom of the page. Each video is only shown for 3 seconds. I literally have to sit there and watch it so that I can see videos that I might be interested in and then click it before it's hidden and the next one is shown. So essentially you've taken away a feature I sometimes used and replaced it with a useless one I need to hide.
  • There is no longer an indication on a model's profile which videos I have already bought. The video listing used to display a "download" link for videos I had already bought and an "add to cart" link for videos I had not. Now, it always lists "add to cart" and I have to click on that link to get the "hey dummy you already bought that" message. That's really annoying, especially when I'm on a model profile with potentially 100+ videos.
As far as other issues go, you've never addressed the problem with your "complete reviews", that being, nobody wants to fill out a fucking ten page review for a porn video. And yet, model's are forced to incentivize full reviews because you base ranking on it. That means I feel bad about it, but not bad enough to ever actually go through that crazy fucking process. Issues like this and your pay to win contests have led a couple of models I follow to leave your site entirely, which just makes my porn purchasing life more difficult because now I have to go to multiple sites, but more importantly for you, sites that are not ManyVids.

I've spent a lot of money on ManyVids and I liked that the vast majority of models I am interested in already had or were creating accounts on your site. But with models now leaving and your usability going to hell, I'm really looking at spending my dollars elsewhere.

Finally, a suggestion. It would be nice if we had the ability to search videos within a given model's profile. A lot of times I find a model I like, she has a hundred videos and I want to know if she has videos that are tagged with X.

Great points, and they are extremely valuable. The whole point of doing changes is to improve the user experience, backed up by stat analysis using GA, crazy egg, etc... as well as user feedback.

1) We added the possibility to click now on the previews atop of each profile, and on the landing page, which directs you straight to the video. We still feel that these playing previews helps users get a better idea of the profile and their content, and will be used for upcoming ideas. We will, of course, track stats and keep analyzing this feature.

2) We had to remove the scrolling feature due to browser performance issues. We had too many complaints, and not enough data supporting it to keep it around. However, we had a big demand to keep this type of feature. We did some research on what is done on other eCom websites, and this is how the new ticker was born. We will also keep monitoring its stats and performance, and keep tweaking it on requests. The speed can be adjusted easily, and we will see if slowing it down helps with its performance.

3) This was due to server performance issues, and we had to temporarily remove it until we coded it a different way. We have since launched it again, and it should work.

4) Complete reviews are being revisited, and we will be changing the way the review process is done according to all the feedback we have gathered.

5) Our contests have had a great impact on a majority of our models, and we will definitely continue to incorporate them. However, we have modified the scheduling, and reserve only certain days in which they give bonuses, making easier to know when to participate. Our goal is to keep them fun, motivate our girls to create new content and involve their fans. Every time, we have taken our community's feedback and adapted the contests to fit their needs.

6) A profile search has been in development, and after reading your comment, we have accelerated the process. You can expect something LIVE very soon.

Again thanks a lot for your feedback! Hopefully these additions will improve your overall experience
 
I think you've hit the nail on the head with all of those points. Having been on the site for about a year through several phases of redesign it doesn't feel as if changes get any real UAT and playing around with something that's an income stream for sellers who may not be in the best circumstances leaves rather a bad taste in the mouth. I've been involved with software projects on the developing and auditing sides, and testing is something that the most successful projects spend a lot of time on.

What's below is stuff I've mostly fed back already but it'd be interesting to know if others feel similarly. Sorry for the stream of consciousness bullet pointing.

Preview/vid related bits;
- On your first point of auto playing video headers I've blocked the header vids specifically (so that there's just a grey box, and it takes up less vertical space) and turned off HTML5 video autoplay, or would honestly have stopped using the site. The mini-preview-on-hover for thumbnails is nice, but anything auto play is obnoxious and causes problems with desktop/laptop browsers.
- As you say, anywhere there's a preview vid or image it should be possible to click through to that model (and a real click that allows users to right-click and open in another tab, not fake javascript type links).
- Using the same "card" type frame that shows a model's avatar, name and location on every vid whilst on their own page is a waste of space.
- Agree on the ticker, although I did used to block it because it didn't play nicely with Chrome/Opera... a lot of sellers have commented on reduced visibility since it's gone.
- I've clicked around far less since the right-hand pane showing a live feed of new video releases has gone. That was the main thing that kept my interest rather than the ticker.
- The toast, if that's what's called, is worse than useless... although at least they seem to have moved it from the left to the right so that it doesn't appear over other content on a desktop browser.
- Yeah... no cloud tags, category or name filters or search functions once you're on a model's page; the interface is clunky for sellers with more than a few videos. For example, if a model frequently releases blowjob, anal and g/g clips it would be useful if the model page showed their most-used tags and customers could use that already-existing information to filter to.
- 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.
- Model pages no longer showing which vids have been purchased seems to have led to instances of to duplicate transactions, buyers being refunded without clear explanation to sellers, and consequent friction all round.

File/download management;
- Video filenames don't include model names as a prefix when saving.
- The "3 downloads and they're gone" approach is like a red rag to a bull on occasions when CloudFront is unreliable and drops connections. Customer support don't seem to understand or have anything to do with the webhosting side of things. I can understand why unlimited downloads aren't offered, but other sites handle this better by telling the customer exactly how many downloads are considered to have been used.
- Some of the "purchase history" pages (which have replaced the user's library) still don't show all entries because developers seem to have hardcoded cut offs. It means that vids are essentially lost and can't be downloaded or reviewed, which is inexcusable and maddening -- in particular a lot of models will do deals as part of which they generate links to grant vids to a user, which show up on the same page as free vids, so I don't think regular users are unlikely to hit that cut off. Paginating the lists (or a "click for more" and infinite scroll option to suit mobile devices) would be a simple fix.

Interface in general;
- Showing a tiny "blocked" tile in the corner of the page or silently redirecting the user to the main vids page if a model has been suspended / content is blocked for your area / a vid has been removed isn't exactly good UI. A page with better explanations and a "you might want to visit instead" links/previews underneath would be better.
- If a model has been suspended for spamming or whatever, punishing users that have subscribed to their content by making them unable to view the model's video listings is a poor experience for customers and one that reflects badly on MV rather than the model.

Contests and promotion;
- They might have found a balance now with the weekly schedules, but running new and constant contests over the summer that favoured already highly selling models seemed to have had a disproportionate impact on others who were selling. Since certain periods are already slow due to normal variation in customer spending that should be expected by anyone running an online sales operation, promotions should be considered on that basis.
- The way reviews are handled is definitely overkill, and some of the rating categories a bit ridiculous. The one people mention the most relates to "unexpected ending" which isn't usually considered a plus in porn.
- There's no way to follow models and see a feed of new releases from those models... for that, you need to follow people on Twitter. And once you're on Twitter, sales are often on other sites or direct. Not sure why MV are apparently so happy to leave money on the table like that.

Overall the MV team seem receptive to comments and I know have fixed some things as a result, but with favourite sellers leaving I'm more there for a few existing membership subscriptions at this point.

Like you stated, we have received most of them already and have forwarded them to our dev team.

Preview/vid related bits
  • 1/2, we will keep checking stats and see what needs to be adjusted if needed
  • 3) agreed that this could be viewed as repetitive. The scope of our last design upgrade was very large, and all cards come from the same source. This could be a point to improve in an upcoming release
  • Although for some this might be useless, we are still analyzing data and seeing that a lot of people are using this feature. We will keep an eye out on trends, and perhaps allow to remove all together in a user's settings if he wishes.
  • This is coming back (notification of your own activity is now live, All activity is coming soon in next release)
  • For the search profile, we are currently working on something and will be launched shortly
  • Although you dont see if you already bought the vid, a warning popup stating you have purchased it already shows up if you try and add it to your cart avoiding duplicate purchases. For now we have no plans in showing more information at first glance, but we will be doing an improvement to this somewhere down the line.

File/download management:
  • Filename: good points, will be scheduled for next release
  • We will think on how to display the amount of downloads left
  • We are still working on a pagination/load more feature, that will allow you to browse through your whole history, for the small amount of users (which are our most valued users of course) having over 500+ purchases/vids to download
Interface in general
  • Currently our whole site alerts work like this, however we have increased the size of our website our last launch, and we realize our error messages are missed by some users with large screens. This is a known issue, and we will be working on it in future releases. A page for now is not in the works, but its a great suggestion if we feel that users want this
  • 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
Contests and promotions
  • We have addressed this issue, and keep contests on a schedule as you indicated. Already the Daily grind and MV Madness has had immense success, where the prizes have been awarded to girls ranked in the 1000s. We thank everyone for their feedback. Again, our goal for these are to keep our Sellers motivated, and make the site interactive.
  • As stated in a previous comment, this is being revisited and will be modified in upcoming releases
  • We are working on some new features in the coming months which will address this. In the meantime, we are bringing back the All Activity/My activity feed.

Thanks again therealpeecee2, as stated many times, your opinions are definitely valuable, and your technical view on certain issues help us improve the site :)
 
The site is useless since the new banner crashes my browser as soon as I open a profile. Others have similar issues.

Also, how come the banner shows previews even if all our video previews are blocked? No means no, or something like that.
I love how @ManyVids completely ignored these two issues.

The banner made it impossible for me to work in chrome, many of my customers stated it does the same for them. People are not going to change the browser just to be able to buy porn. You are losing money.

I removed all my videos from the site at this point since I strongly disagree with showing previews in the banner and to models/premium members while the previews are blocked.
 
I love how @ManyVids completely ignored these two issues.

The banner made it impossible for me to work in chrome, many of my customers stated it does the same for them. People are not going to change the browser just to be able to buy porn. You are losing money.

I removed all my videos from the site at this point since I strongly disagree with showing previews in the banner and to models/premium members while the previews are blocked.
I definitely didn't ignore the issues, i might have overlooked 1 or 2 (there were a lot of questions to answer...).
Close to 75% of our users are chrome, and we receive a very low amount of criticism regarding the previews (we get a lot of good comments for them). We have added the possibility to click on the previews and go to the video, and we will analyze this data to see if it results is further sales, and how they behave with this. We definitely believe it generates more sales than the very few that their CPUs cannot handle it.

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.
 
I love how @ManyVids completely ignored these two issues.

The banner made it impossible for me to work in chrome, many of my customers stated it does the same for them. People are not going to change the browser just to be able to buy porn. You are losing money.

I removed all my videos from the site at this point since I strongly disagree with showing previews in the banner and to models/premium members while the previews are blocked.
Do you still sell those videos on another site? I was planning on buying some of them. :)
 
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