Alternative for Stickam

[LUniqueDan]

  Now, I'm seriously fed up. 

After the last roomcrash, I tried to join 3 times in a row, end up with an htlm coded page, and now ain't no room anymore.

I know, I know, it's been 6 months that we bitch against Stickam, but now let's find an alternative.

So, anyone know any FREE vidchat site that we poor agsers can use to procrastinate instead of doing games?

Please?

Find a new home for Boyd.

Pleaaaaaaaaaaase?

Let Sylvr' / Pilf / Spacegirl get PMed by Randumbs more efficiently.

Anyone?

[bicilotti]

http://www.paltalk.com/express/

It is beta, mind you.

I'll try it and see if it is worth the hassle.

the no download version is mostly obscene

[LUniqueDan]

Yup No Free cam version

Nice Adult rooms btw. 

[LGM]

Skype would be a good alternative, but again, you have to download the client.

[LUniqueDan]

Thanx Big Boy, I'll give a try.

[BOYD1981]

Stickam have actually made their API available for everyone to download at http://www.stickam.com/api.do?sknewsltrref=200812 so now we could make our own stickam
somehow...

[bicilotti]

[...] so now we could make our own stickam
somehow...

* stares at CodeJunkie

[space boy]

Skype would be a good alternative, but again, you have to download the client.

And we wouldn't get funny randoms like the creepy masked dude who came in today.

[monkey0506]

And we wouldn't get funny randoms like the creepy coughtheacough.

There's no need to be rude.

[Nacho]

This thread should be moved to popular threads...

[Sylvr]

I don't think so...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

And you should be moved to popular skeptics.

[IndieBoy]

5    Each API site has a limit on the number of API requests it can call per day. By default this is 20000.

Note: This value will change after we analyze the API traffic data, growth, and performance. It will also change in the future once we introduce the pricing model for the API.
6    Each API site has a limit on the number of viewers who can join and view per live session. By default this is 10.

Note: This value will change after we analyze the API traffic data, growth, and performance. This will change in the future once we introduce the pricing model for the API.

So we can only have 10 people in a room at once and it seems the only veiwable content is if you go live on the stickam site.

[MrColossal]

This thread should be moved to popular threads...

Nacho, just cut it out. Forgive these AGSers for having fun and move on.

[Ghost]

No, he has a point, let's get all religious about it.

[Nacho]

Hey I was jocking!  This thread had like 9 posts when I posted the "Move this to popular threads"; how could I SERIOUSLY ask it to be moved to pop threads?

I find amusing that I had to explain it... 

[monkey0506]

It's great to see the forums are off to a healthy, spam and troll free start for 2009.

[bicilotti]

Getting back on topic, we're not alone in our quest:

Googling you get

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=577320&topic=46989615
http://dreamtheaterforums.org/forum/index.php?topic=19500.0;wap2

even a youtube video

Bottom line is: no, there isn't (expecially if you are searching for a no-download client), but something is moving.

If you, AGSers who are not stickamers, know something more, let us know

[monkey0506]

There's always *cough, cough* the IRC chat *cough, cough*...

[Stupot]

Am I to assume most people would prefer something web-based?  I would, too, but then again I'd happily download something if it was trustworthy and better than Stickam.  LGM mentioned Skype - Is anyone against that? It would do the job.

One of the comments in Bici's youtube link above had a URL for a place called Paltalk... It is for download.  It says that it supports video conferenceing for 10 people.  That might just mean 10 webcams, maybe more people are allowed in to the chat box... but to be fair I've pesonally never seen as many as 10 people in an AGS Stickam room anyway.