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It's not surprising that all the porn websites the author mentions have a similar design; they're all owned and run by the same company, Mindgeek.
It's not surprising that all the porn websites the author mentions have a similar design; they're all owned and run by the same company, Mindgeek.
I haven't seen any porn site with tagging, search, or browse features as well made as e621 (or any booru website)
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A very naive thought, but isn't it a bit different for porn sites because of the existence of orgasms? If I'm watching TikTok and a really good video comes on I am encouraged to watch more but if there is a really good porn video I'm ... Done? At least for that session. So it's like they want to keep dopamine levels not cranked up, but at sustained medium levels. Again, I don't know anything about UX, please tell me…
Probably, but you still want to maximize the amount of time users are on the site, or the amount of pages they visit. Orgasms are just an additional complication, I'd imagine.
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I haven't seen any porn site with tagging, search, or browse features as well made as e621 (or any booru website)
IMO the only booru like site that has a better tagging/searching system than esix is derpibooru. It is fast enough to be almost scary. Even with highly complex filters.
https://github.com/philomena-dev/philomena
Edit: PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE LICENSE, it is AGPL licensed, which means if you copy any of the code into your back-end, your whole back-end must be open sourced, as a back-end nerd I stay away from anything AGPL'd just to be on the safe side of the law.
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?
Maximize utility. Maximize search accuracy. Give people what they want rather than string them along for as much time as possible.
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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.
So... let's just be glad YT only allows mouths to be agape on the thumbnails you have to scroll past.
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?
Firstly getting the speeds up to load images, then videos with buffering then 4k, then VR.
The design features and business model of porn sites is years ahead of anything else, for a reason these sites up until very recently were the majority of bandwith over the Internet.
A business model you will start to see more which is very common in porn is to use the streaming site as advertising to your paid membership site.
You release 10min clip of say a podcast and to watch the rest you need to join the members only site. As YouTube partner programme gets worse and rules about what content get more strict you will see a drive to only using YouTube as a marketing tool to get people behind the pay wall.
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.