Glasnost77 Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 Apparently smule has made some changes in recent weeks, now I find that if I send an invite to another singer, who may be a stranger or a singer whom I follow but they don't follow me back, the send fails and the message shows 'Failed to load recording'. It does work if I send the OC (by message) to mutual followers. Also there is one singer who doesn't follow me but I have exchanged many messages with her, and I find it does allow me to send an Invite to her, suggesting the new smule algorithm allows sending OCs to singers who are not following you provided some interaction via Messages has taken place... wow ! It probably explains why of late, I haven't received song Invites from strangers. I guess there are pros and cons to this.. it will reduce spamming but also means we cannot get more engagement for Invites of obscure or unknown songs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasnost77 Posted September 25 Author Share Posted September 25 Update: after restarting the App, now it shows the Invites as being sent successfully to people who don't follow me back. Although, now the text message has disappeared (I had sent both together), so there may be a display problem in the Messages section of the App. Have opened a ticket with their support and will report if there is any worthwhile update... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 I had the same issue with failure to load songs i sent as invites, and as you said once i restarted my android phone, the messages appeared as delivered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasnost77 Posted October 3 Author Share Posted October 3 So smule support just asked me to send a screen recording of the issue and then said they filed a bug report for the issue for further investigation. Not very helpful as I am not sure what is the current behaviour of this feature vs its design. It seems that the Invites are not being delivered, as I did not get any response to the OCs I had messaged, nor do I see the read checkmark on any of the messages, which is unusual. It looks like another quite useful feature has been messed up by them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasnost77 Posted October 4 Author Share Posted October 4 Its now official, received following today: -------------- Smule Support Team (Smule) Oct 3, 2024, 13:10 GMT+3 Hi,  Recently, we’ve added new rules regarding the Chat, especially when there is no follow connection between the users. In short:  User A & User B does not follow each other. User A can send an unlimited number of messages to User B, but User B will receive only the first one.  The first message can only be a short text message (up to 100 characters). This is not indicated in any way in the chat UI at the moment.  For User B to receive messages, User B has to accept the chat request from User A by replying or following User A.  Why? To reduce spam, profanity, and wrongful behavior. Smule Support Team ----------------------- So I guess Smule has basically copied the Instagram way of messaging non-followers... 😶 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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