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The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by hackernewds »

Callous comparison.

Take a step back and imagine what success, and reflection of good rankings algos would be on these sites. Longer engagement times and multiple videos (+ads) for YouTube. Shorter time on site and less videos for Pornhub.

The interfaces would be designed accordingly with those end goals in mind.

Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by flappyeagle »

hackernewds wrote: post #8
thaufeki wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, these sites had a play on hovering over a video thumbnail feature that youtube copied

To be fair these seem like naturally intuitive and simple ideas

you just described the definition of good design

Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by hugh-avherald »

Semaphor wrote: post #7
pawelduda wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People in thumbnails make weird facial expressions for different reasons

> People in thumbnails make weird facial expressions for different reasons I’ve seen porn videos with a YT-style thumbnail (annoying person making a dumb face in front of whatever is actually interesting), but so far they are very rare.

That would seem to suggest that the obnoxious YT-style thumbnails are mainly driven by children. (Or, at least, with strictly adult-only audiences they don't appear.)

Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by thaufeki »

hackernewds wrote: post #11

Callous comparison. Take a step back and imagine what success, and reflection of good rankings algos would be on these sites. Longer engagement times and multiple videos (+ads) for YouTube. Shorter time on site and less videos for Pornhub. The interfaces would be designed accordingly with those end goals in mind.

Why would they want less time spent on the site? That's optimal perhaps for the user not site, and the article discusses how the site is designed to keep the user searching.

Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by Semaphor »

hugh-avherald wrote: post #13
Semaphor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> People in thumbnails make weird facial expressions for different reasons I’ve seen porn videos with a YT-style thumbnail (annoying person making a dumb face in front of whatever is actually interesting), but so far they are very rare.

That would seem to suggest that the obnoxious YT-style thumbnails are mainly driven by children. (Or, at least, with strictly adult-only audiences they don't appear.)

YT uploads with "the face" are by the creator, porn uploads are mainly by random people pirating porn someone else made.

Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by blowski »

stavros wrote: post #16

I have the same issue with this as other commenters here: The article says that porn sites are designed to maximize engagement. As opposed to what, other video sites?

I imagine it's a different type of "engagement" for a lot of viewers, something the article only alludes to euphemistically.

Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by stavros »

blowski wrote: post #17
stavros wrote: post #16

I have the same issue with this as other commenters here: The article says that porn sites are designed to maximize engagement. As opposed to what, other video sites?

I imagine it's a different type of "engagement" for a lot of viewers, something the article only alludes to euphemistically.

It doesn't matter how you measure engagement though, in the end all ad-supported sites want to maximize it.

Re: The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot

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Post by blowski »

stavros wrote: post #18
blowski wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine it's a different type of "engagement" for a lot of viewers, something the article only alludes to euphemistically.

It doesn't matter how you measure engagement though, in the end all ad-supported sites want to maximize it.

True. It would be interesting to read specific comparisons to YouTube. The problem for an article like this is discussing details of something that's extremely intimate for most people.
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