@celine
Version 1.2.512 is the stable version which we can download from the website's home page. There's some mistake here ?

@Calgon The "Now playing / Playlist" tab will be back on the FullScreen page in the next Beta, that should be released next week :) AND it will not slide back anymore when you change of page : it will remain like you left it :)

Thank God It's already the last Friday of May!

This week has been super rich in sexy emotion thanks to the amazing shows we've released:

• Emiri Momota is deliciously tanning "Under The Rising Sun"
• Elle Mira can hardly keep her amazing breast in this so well named "Milky Way" show !
• Alice Hernandez is "In Hardland", and promises you a very hot spanking...
• Ahhh ! Agatha Vega, our goddess ! At a time sweet and naughty in "Lust In Leather"
• Summer is almost here ! And Selva Lapiedra is ready for "Ipanema's Sunlight"
• So is Sata Jones "***** Bright" in her little orange dress
• Marina Gold prefers shopping to beach, especially when wearing "Sexy Casual Shorts"

And on mobile:

• Miss O, sublimely naughty with her chains...
• Marina Gold and her famous blue bikini
• Emiri Momota in a fantastic Ada's cosplay

And in VR 180:

The delicious Sata Jones came to take care of you :
https://www.istripper.com/vr180/detail/9c60ecdfb900e4e2


WHEEL OF BARGAINS / GOLDEN TICKET

One week left to enjoy two of the most efficient promo games !

Reminder of the rules :

Wheel of bargains:
Spin for 1 credit and get one of the following discounts on the 4 cards drawn:
10%, 20%, 35%, 50%, 70% or 100% (FREE)!
The cards are selected among the most recent ones not in your collection and released more than 45 days ago.
Press "add to collection" to buy these shows with the drawn discount or press Spin for a new draw.


The golden ticket:
Scratch the 5 boxes to discover your prize :
You can win : 50, 200, 500 credits, 3 to 5 cards and a Joker Card.

And of course, Serena Milano's Event Card is still to be won in your progression bar :)



Have a nice week-end!

@JonC001 ... oh yes, it was an instant purchase

Is it true that from now on, the app will only work on Windows 10 and up.

It's not true :) Next beta version will correct the problem :)

I've raised this twice now and not heard anything back.

It's being discussed :)

This beta is only for PCs.Booo....

Mac version is currently being tested by a few members, PM me if you want to participate :)

This beta is only for PCs.

Booo....

@Celine

I want to hear it from the team !!
Is it true that from now on, the app will only work on Windows 10 and up ??
If so this is a very bad news.

Why is a beta shown as the final version on the website?
If this is no longer beta, then why call it such?
If this is still beta, then remove it from the website.

I am not impressed by the layout of this beta though I realise that when Totem have a final version ready for release I will have to get used to it.

Same here. But please, Team, give us back a slider for personal resize of cards on Strore and Collection.

If you go to the istripper landing page https://www.istripper.com/ the version that new members will be downloading is the current beta 1.2.512

I understand Totem wants new layout to become a standard as soon as possible. I understand less, and personally don't like, such a rushed approach in its implementation. Giving to new users a potentially unstable software could not look to me a good move in any way.

Moreover: I now use 1.2.378 version, and if I check the update button on Settings page it says my version is up-to-date - while, on iStripper site, only the new "beta"(?) version 1.2.512 is now available to download. So, we have a contradiction.
Which one is the actual "current version" at the moment?

build support for lovense toys...

Physically cannot happen - lovense toys are interactive and hence the person with the app and the person with the toy have to be synched up AT THE SAME TIME.

Our shows are all recorded in a studio so what you are seeing was filmed days if not even months ago.

build support for lovense toys...

Thanks for the information and explanations

Ah. Well, handing out the beta to new subscribers looks like a bold move even to me! Especially with the automatic updates intact. We'll see how that works out. To be fair, for most users the current .512 version is pretty solid. I have been running it all week and all the basic functions- buying cards, creating playlists, running playlists, the store, disabling and reenabling the program- all seem to be running just fine. No crashes, no obvious bugs (other than the exciting interaction between existing playlists and later deleted cards), nothing like that.

And at least at 4K, the improved collection display is beautiful, and the legibility improvements for playlists are very nice too. I have very little motivation to go back to .378. I even like the new home page.

And it's clear that Totem certainly has faith that it is a solid release. So I expect that it will go live very soon.

Still 32 bit.

64b or still 32b ?...

First I would like to thank @wyldanimal for the links to the videos that he has made.
Very informative.

Second I would like to thank all the beta testers for the time that you spend in testing these versions so that when I download a release it does not have any bugs. (or very few bugs)

I am not impressed by the layout of this beta though I realise that when Totem have a final version ready for release I will have to get used to it.

@Celine

like the fluidity of the animations, the speed of the controls, etc

For myself... the fluidity of the software is undoubtedly important but the "workflow" of what I need to interact with in order to get the software to do what I want is just as important. I spend a fair amount of my time as a user on the full screen page, to get to it, instead of clicking its old simple icon I now have to go into the drop down menu and select it. It feels like the full-screen is seen as a secondary demoted product.

To set up a playlist... I have to leave the full screen scene and go into "My Collection"

Then... two more clicks to get back to the full screen page to select the scene I want to start.

Then... I decide I want to skip to the next model in my playlist... so it's back to "My Collection" only the "Now Playing" tab has closed, so another click to open that before I can skip the model. ..... and repeat and repeat every time I want to change the now playing queue or the scene. It would be nice to know if it is planned to return the functionality that was there before. I've raised this twice now and not heard anything back.

Likewise with the Carousel.... is it gone forever 😪 or just not built yet? It's one of my favourite features and must be good for sales ??? I think everyone on here would like to know what is planned. At the moment I am loading up the Beta.... having a look... and then returning to 1-2-376.

Not a text label. In the previous versions, there is an icon at the end of each clips, which let me know the girl's nudity level at the beginning of this clip.
Although I am using English language, this icon has disappeared in the new version.

I think I know what you mean but the only clip icon that related to nudity level was the "Starting nude" icon. For me, many of these clip icons are no longer visible since version .360 but it doesn't seem to affect most members.

The clips list of the new version does not display nudity levels at the beginning of the clips.I don't understand - the nudity level of each clip is very clearly displayed on my clips list page. Maybe it depends on the language used by the GUI.

Not a text label. In the previous versions, there is an icon at the end of each clips, which let me know the girl's nudity level at the beginning of this clip.
Although I am using English language, this icon has disappeared in the new version.

i have a apple mac mini it doesnt work i guess mine is not pc i thought it was

The clips list of the new version does not display nudity levels at the beginning of the clips.

I don't understand - the nudity level of each clip is very clearly displayed on my clips list page. Maybe it depends on the language used by the GUI.

The clips list of the new version does not display nudity levels at the beginning of the clips. Can you fix it?

This beta is only for PCs.

i click on it it says not available

It gets worse.

I agree. I was shocked at seeing @Celine 's latest posts. If it's a beta version then it should not be treated as a release version, and if it's a release version it should not be called a beta.

@TheEmu

It gets worse.
Just discovered this.
If you go to the istripper landing page https://www.istripper.com/ the version that new members will be downloading is the current beta 1.2.512

When I first joined VGHD as it was then, if I had downloaded a version riddled with bugs/problems I would not have become a long term member.

Regarding the drop-down menu in the top righthand corner of the GUI.

I find it odd to have this menu in this position - in almost every other program that I have ever seen menus such as this have been located in the top left, not the top right. It seems strange not to fllow what can be regarded as established practice in this matter and put it where it would be expected. However, I did quickly get used to its unusual position.

Also, could you please add Quit or Exit to this menu. Again this would be in line with normal practice. I know that Quit is available via the systray icon but there are two, *****, problems with that being the only way to shut down the program

1 - As we have seen from previous discussions not everybody thinks to look there.

2 - The systray icon is not always immediately visible as it may be among the icons in the systray overflow area.

Ok this was for the main improvements...
Indeed, this new UI is the very very start of what iStripper V2 will be :-P

Now I let you discover by yourselves the several renamings, design changes (of the stickers for instance or the removal of the "buy credits" button...), the harmonization of the colors, the menus, the fonts, the icons... as well as the "invisible" part, like the fluidity of the animations, the speed of the controls, etc.

Enjoy : (PC only) https://www.istripper.com/binary/beta/1_2_512/setup-istripper.exe🤗

One of my fav news is the "Now playing:" information at the bottom left, that gives you the show + the model name of the beauty currently on your screen (pure chance that I chose my dear Agatha for the example 😇)

The settings and their different icons have been reorganized!

• The download icon is now at the bottom right, together with the sound managers;
• the settings / music / full screen are in the drop down menu of your username now, together with a shortcut to the so useful "synchronize with servers" !
• Plus now, you can LOG OUT ! No need to go pick up the "register again" option in the advanced settings anymore!

Here we are ! Curtain raiser on the new HOME page ! There you see the Most popular shows of the moment, the most recent news, the recent releases, some recommended categories and the shows coming soon !!

Eventually, the final version should let you organize the order of these sections as you wish 😋

Still hesitate to upgrade to our Beta version ?

Alright, let me share with you some screenshots of the version 1.2.512's main pages so that you get a quick foretaste of what's happening on this side of the iStripper world 😍 🤗

@muttonjeff,
did you get Agatha's card today?

I agree entirely with @peterbanker on this. I don't use Discord so I didn't see the post he talks about which encourages us to "Check It Out" but it sounds like it was not very informative to naive users as to just what they were being encouraged to do.

I have found that it is a common failing of developers (almost all developers, not just Totem's) to assume that their users understand more about software and software development than they typically do. Exposing users to such terms as "beta version" without explicit, clear, and very visible explanations of their meanings and of the possible consequences is a bad thing.

@Celine said this:

The auto-update of the Beta is and will remain for the Beta versions only.
And nobody will be ***** to move to the Beta...
Only the "Beta to newer Beta" will be automated

Excellent! Thank you.
This is plenty good enough for me.

From some of the posts here it seems that a significant proportion of users do not understand the word "beta" when applied to a software release and think they are just getting the latest newest, greatest, and best version. Such users need to be actively informed of what they are doing. If nothing else we can then say "you were warned" rather than having to explain a technical term.

This is the point that I was trying to make on the discord forum last Saturday.
When I ran istripper last Friday to get the latest SEC a message popped up on my computer screen about this beta suggesting that I "Check It Out".
The tone and format of this message was similar to the one used when I need to do a compulsory update to the latest version.

The auto-update of the Beta is and will remain for the Beta versions only.
And nobody will be ***** to move to the Beta...
Only the "Beta to newer Beta" will be automated

Fair enough - but please allow us to delay the update even if that means we can't run the program at all, even the old beta, until we are ready for it. I my case I was very unhappy on having it happen because you can have no idea what else I was running at the time of the update.

👍👍👍

nothing beats a Told Ya So 😊

to be honest ... if they dont understand the large print words NEW BETA, i suspect they will probably just click the install button anyway and ignore any warnings

From some of the posts here it seems that a significant proportion of users do not understand the word "beta" when applied to a software release and think they are just getting the latest newest, greatest, and best version. Such users need to be actively informed of what they are doing. If nothing else we can then say "you were warned" rather than having to explain a technical term.

OMG Agatha Vega - Lust In Leather.
I have always loved watching Agatha but for me, this card is what stripTEASE is all about. Simply stunning.
I have praised other models recently but Agatha is a goddess. 😍

The auto-update of the Beta is and will remain for the Beta versions only.
And nobody will be ***** to move to the Beta...
Only the "Beta to newer Beta" will be automated

Perhaps the first thing the installer should do is display a large "friendy" warning about this and ask you if that was OK or not.

to be honest ... if they dont understand the large print words NEW BETA, i suspect they will probably just click the install button anyway and ignore any warnings

as long as they can reinstall the last known release, they will recover

We do? 😕

@fengzhaoshen said;

The point is, when will she update a few more new performances??😫😫

I wholeheartedly agree! We all want more, more MORE of Emiri! ✌💚😎

@TheEmu said this:

Perhaps the first thing the installer should do is display a large "friendy" warning about this and ask you if that was OK or not.

👍

It should be made very clear that it is a TEST version and not meant to be used by inexperienced users.

Betas should never be mandatory. Some users will not want to test the software.

No one was ***** to test the software. The choice to update to a beta was not mandatory, it was the update from one test version to the next that was *****, but this was only after accepting the choice to be a tester. Actually more than just "accepting the choice" but deciding to deliberately go out of your way to separately download and run the installer rather than use the regular update function of the software.

I do think, however, that it could be made clearer to naive users that by running the beta's installer they are partaking in a test program using a program that has not yet been fully debugged. Perhaps the first thing the installer should do is display a large "friendy" warning about this and ask you if that was OK or not. That should at least help to avoid complaints like "the software is rushed out with bugs" being directed at beta versions.

If nothing else Totem are getting some feedback on the idea of ***** updates that they can apply to the non-beta releases.

I think it speaks volumes that I was willing to knowingly risk corrupting my iStripper installation by aborting the ***** update by using Windows task manager to ***** iStripper rather than let it proceed without my express permission.

Betas should never be mandatory. Some users will not want to test the software.

When version 12376 (or 78) is no longer usable, I will be done with istripper. No more purchases and no more interaction with the forum.

And yes, ***** automatic updates are acceptable for beta releases ONLY. I completely agree with @Wyldanimal here.

I am not so happy to have no control as to whether an update is applied even to a beta.

This latest update caught me by surprise, I was not ready to accept it, so I ***** iStripper as the update was still downloading. I then completed some work that I felt was important was not interrupted. Only then did I manually apply the update when I judged that it was safe to do so. As it happened that was only a few minutes later and the work was not very important, but it could well have been hours or even days and the work could have been very important.

With automatic updates you have no idea what other work may be interrupted if the update has problems. I want to be able to control when such risky (doubly so with betas) processes.