No videos posted today had photo contact sheets. I hope this isn't a trend, as those are extremely valuable.
Missing thumbnail contact sheets
jdogfunk100 It's gone for older videos as well so they must have removed it for the whole site. They add crap that nobody wants like flat videos and take away features that we like and use. It makes no sense to me.
jdogfunk100 Hi,
Can you please send a few examples?
I've checked several videos; everything was okay.
AlexSLR like this tab on this video https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/the-hungmaids-tale-55717?tab=photos, should have a button that leads to -> https://www.sexlikereal.com/virtualreality/mosaic/id/55717.
that button is missing as of today.
I tried to include a screen shot, but I don't see an option to upload an image, I just get this:

Anyway, I tried using Firefox and Chrome and even logged out to see if that made a difference...no option for the full contact sheet below the usual 4 "photos"
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We stopped creating contact sheets for new videos as we are optimizing content management. The feature barely gets 150 visits a day.
Let me try to get it back for existing.
Won't be moving it to
https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/9179-exciting-news-alpha-version-of-the-new-slr-web-is-live/ expected in June for sure
doublevr So how are we supposed to determine if a scene is worth watching or downloading without a contact sheet?
That's disappointing. Absent thumbnail previews, a lot of people will just download the video to preview it; thereby adversely affecting the site's bandwidth. Is it really that difficult to maintain this feature? Most other sites have this.
SLR removing yet another feature that I use...
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There is no way this feature gets less than 150 visits a day. I personally use it 15 to 20 times a day (for 15-20 videos). Based on the above comments, your metrics are off.
Why are you even looking to remove features?
AlexSLR
doublevr
You guys make some really bad decisions. I will 100% absolutely cancel my sub over this, unless you continue to provide contact sheets for all past and future videos. Removing features that people use in every interaction with your site is incredibly stupid and will lose you customers. You're not the only player in this game.
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You can see the thread where we discussed missing thumbnails in the new web back in January here: https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/9179-exciting-news-alpha-version-of-the-new-slr-web-is-live/40
but I'll repeat my points here because it applies equally to the old site as well as new.
I use screenshots mosaic constantly. I am forced to use it because cover photos and pro gallery and vid previews dont tell nearly half the story of whats in the scene. I look at screenshots mosaic to understand the extent of my preferred positions, to understand what the scenes contains in action, to see the camera placements from a VR perspective, to check video duration, to see codec specifics of the base version of the video, and to see how the models actual look on camera. Sometimes the cover and preview photos are so misleading, I'm forced to look at the mosaic to tell whether the scene is actually alpha PT or not.
The pro photos do not give a good indication of what the scene actually includes...especially from a VR perspective. Plus they are cherry-picked to inspire viewing without consideration of what the bulk of the scene actually includes. The video previews are misleading as fuck in many cases and, specifically for me, are blocked from playing because of my browser security settings (what the fuck cross-site and/or streaming codec settings are you using that is so easily blocked by basic browser security settings anyway?).
If you manage to deliver the information I'm looking for without using screenshot mosiacs, that would be cool. But deprecating them and leaving that gap of info would significantly reduce the usability of the browser website --at least for me.
Below you can see an example of how fucking pointless the pro gallery can be.
This is a gawdam alpha passthrough scene--there's no fucking gym, this is pure bullshit.
And what the hell is this? This clearly indicates that the scene is non-POV or mixed POV, right? Why else include it?
Then there's the video preview which is like a quick cut nightmare-in-a-bubble.
jdogfunk100 I use it daily as well for at least 6-8 videos. I just don't see the logic with many of the decisions being made by the team here.
It's bad enough trying to wade through all the amateur and toon cgi trash that I have zero interest in and now they remove the one feature that I use to gauge if a scene is worth downloading. My sub is up for renewal in a few months, looks like I'll be moving on.
No thumbnail contact sheet, no purchase of video.
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jdogfunk100 There is no way this feature gets less than 150 visits a day. I personally use it 15 to 20 times a day (for 15-20 videos). Based on the above comments, your metrics are off.
doublevr
I use it multiple times a day as well. It is an extremely useful feature.
- Convenient for timestamps
- Great for camera position and angle references
- Important for source file metadata
- Extremely vital to see when a revision has been posted (there is a "RC" in the filename on contact sheet when this occurs)
I hope it comes back.
Definitely need to bring contact sheets back, it's the only way to get a good idea of what the scene will entail.
This was a useful feature to get an overview of what a video contained. It's a downgrade for me losing it.
Is this why none of the videos are showing the preview when hoving over it? Why get rid of that? It was so helpful.