Fed up with Picarto, are there any alternatives!?
a year ago
I gotta be real with everyone I've had it up to here with the streaming service Picarto!
I've been using this site to live stream my artwork for quite a few years now but I'm quite fed up with the severe lack of quality control and just general functionality that this service provides. As it stands it seems like every time I stream half the people watching cannot get anything to load and they're just stuck with infinite buffer loops, or the stream freezes with no indication whatsoever and viewers only realize that anything has changed when they refresh the page. While all the data I send to Picarto goes through without a hitch but seemingly their service sending out data to the viewers is just completely unreliable!
I sometimes will switch to an one of their alternative server hubs in hopes that the bandwidth will be better for the viewers on the stream but this seems to be to no avail, some people it seems to work fine while others it's just completely unviewable and this is becoming far too much of a detriment to my work. On top of just being generally frustrated with how the service is performing it seems that there are no discussion boards, no topics of debate and no help anywhere to be found when it comes to the poor quality of this service. For a website that's been up for years they even have text on their help website saying it's still under construction so it seems like they're just stringing us along and offering no real answers to how poorly their service is functioning! All the while year after year I've been paying for the premium service for the features that it provides but the site and it's general purpose can't work and it's becoming a clear hindrance to people like me who use it to promote myself as an artist.
But here comes the other issue that I face, there's not very many streaming services that I have heard of that I could use to create more often than not NSFW content for my viewers. Obviously streaming services like Twitch don't allow NSFW content otherwise this would have been a non-issue. So I ask the people who might read this journal do you know of any alternatives that are reliable and functional and allow NSFW content? Or am I doomed to invite everyone who wants to watch a livestream of my work to a discord server or something of that sort?
Any feedback or advice would be appreciated greatly, hope everyone has a great day!
I've been using this site to live stream my artwork for quite a few years now but I'm quite fed up with the severe lack of quality control and just general functionality that this service provides. As it stands it seems like every time I stream half the people watching cannot get anything to load and they're just stuck with infinite buffer loops, or the stream freezes with no indication whatsoever and viewers only realize that anything has changed when they refresh the page. While all the data I send to Picarto goes through without a hitch but seemingly their service sending out data to the viewers is just completely unreliable!
I sometimes will switch to an one of their alternative server hubs in hopes that the bandwidth will be better for the viewers on the stream but this seems to be to no avail, some people it seems to work fine while others it's just completely unviewable and this is becoming far too much of a detriment to my work. On top of just being generally frustrated with how the service is performing it seems that there are no discussion boards, no topics of debate and no help anywhere to be found when it comes to the poor quality of this service. For a website that's been up for years they even have text on their help website saying it's still under construction so it seems like they're just stringing us along and offering no real answers to how poorly their service is functioning! All the while year after year I've been paying for the premium service for the features that it provides but the site and it's general purpose can't work and it's becoming a clear hindrance to people like me who use it to promote myself as an artist.
But here comes the other issue that I face, there's not very many streaming services that I have heard of that I could use to create more often than not NSFW content for my viewers. Obviously streaming services like Twitch don't allow NSFW content otherwise this would have been a non-issue. So I ask the people who might read this journal do you know of any alternatives that are reliable and functional and allow NSFW content? Or am I doomed to invite everyone who wants to watch a livestream of my work to a discord server or something of that sort?
Any feedback or advice would be appreciated greatly, hope everyone has a great day!

MiddaySolace
~middaysolace
I've been seeing decent streams on Piczel.tv

Rav
~rav
OP
I gave it a test and enjoyed it

Ultilix
~ultilix
Piczel is a far superior streaming service for art, NSFW or otherwise, imo

Rav
~rav
OP
I've checked it out and Im going to give it a go!

Ralanr
~ralanr
Have you tried switching servers? Apparently the LA server is busted.

Rav
~rav
OP
I mentioned in the post that yes I've tried using different servers but the issues remain