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Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

tibbon wrote: post #20

So for those of you that have worked on porn sites- why are they generally so poorly done (or at least, from the perspective that most HN coders would view as poorly). Many have parts that are broken, they are slow, have really messy HTML, rely super heavily on flash, and just lack most modern features that most sites would have. I've been dreaming of 'porn for geeks', where the content is the same, but there's nice…

That hasn't been my experience in my, um, research. Then again, I'm not really going to the hetero porn sites that are a dime-a-dozen.

Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by bphogan »

tibbon wrote: post #20

So for those of you that have worked on porn sites- why are they generally so poorly done (or at least, from the perspective that most HN coders would view as poorly). Many have parts that are broken, they are slow, have really messy HTML, rely super heavily on flash, and just lack most modern features that most sites would have. I've been dreaming of 'porn for geeks', where the content is the same, but there's nice…

Really, how often do you see these things on mainstream sites? Most developers who care about those things are fighting other developers or founders who continue to use the "We need to make money, not be standards compliant" argument.

When I give talks on accessibility, that's the #1 thing people say. THey can't be bothered to care because they believe that time could be better spent solving their business problems. They often truly believe that it's too costly, or that their target audience doesn't care.

And sometimes, they're spot on. Fact is, people come to web sites (not apps, but sites) for content. If it's wrapped in a crappy container, people tend to just deal with it, as long as the content is worth their time.

[edited for typos and clarification]

Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by [deleted] »

fredoliveira wrote: post #33
Vivtek wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been dreaming of 'porn for geeks' Yeah, me, too. Some kind of similarity metric would be nice, wouldn't it? "More like this"? Email me if you want to get serious any time.

I would like to add emphasis to this particular sentence: Email me if you want to get serious any time.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by Vivtek »

calloc wrote: post #24
SageRaven wrote: post #13

I've always wondered if sysadmin work for adult sites was a niche due to moral objections or the perception that employment at a "normal" place would be difficult afterwards. I don't often see many admin job postings for such sites, so I assume the industry is somewhat incestuous (no pun intended) and/or nepotist, resulting in more word-of-mouth job prospects than through the usual channels. Discretion and all that.…

When I got my job in the porn industry they didn't advertise that was what it was for. Instead it was brought up during the interview process. They asked me a series of questions related to it as well. Like "For your day job you may have to visit bigblackcocks.com to make sure their website is functioning again, how do you feel about that?" and "We host a lot of content that might be offensive, if given root access w…

You just wonder whether they had hired somebody as an admin and they deleted everything... Once bitten, twice shy?

Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by ctravis »

tibbon wrote: post #20

So for those of you that have worked on porn sites- why are they generally so poorly done (or at least, from the perspective that most HN coders would view as poorly). Many have parts that are broken, they are slow, have really messy HTML, rely super heavily on flash, and just lack most modern features that most sites would have. I've been dreaming of 'porn for geeks', where the content is the same, but there's nice…

The inherent flaw is that most people who actually pay for porn are not geeks, they are generally people who dont know the internet well enough to find porn for free.

my .2 at least

Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by there »

rodion_89 wrote: post #18
what-to-do wrote: post #4

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...

nothing to do with the post, but im just curious why there is a strange character right after 'ie=UTF-8' in the name of your link.

because the encoded url is

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=adult...
and the HN code that truncates long urls chopped it in the middle of &#38 so it becomes "&#3" which is telling your browser to print the ascii character 3, which it can't show properly, so it shows the character you see instead.

Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by daralthus »

I worked for livejasmin (and the sister sites), some years ago, I think it was the biggest live streaming sites even back then.

Unfortunately, I wasn't a coder then, just support staff, but it was a great experience and I learnt some things about how they run a multimillion dollar biz from a basement.

Got a view on everything from creditcard processing, to the sysadmin side. And of course dealing with performers and customers was always fun, as they are not that usual people. Still remember a "crazy stuff" folder, where we used to collect the funny moments.

Re: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

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Post by robotron »

tibbon wrote: post #20

So for those of you that have worked on porn sites- why are they generally so poorly done (or at least, from the perspective that most HN coders would view as poorly). Many have parts that are broken, they are slow, have really messy HTML, rely super heavily on flash, and just lack most modern features that most sites would have. I've been dreaming of 'porn for geeks', where the content is the same, but there's nice…

Most likely those are just affiliate sites.
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