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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 giancarlostoro »

godmode2019 wrote: post #48

I had a friend once tell me that porn was the driving force for innovation on the internet. 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 v…

Wasn't porn the first ecommerce offering? Like they were the pioneers of "give me your credit card we give you porn." or is that an urban legend, I swear I've heard this remarked here on HN before, I just don't have any solid citations.

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Post by tomger »

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

... like searching for text on the internet

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

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Post by collegeburner »

desindol wrote: post #3
mccorrinall wrote: post #2

How is the pornhub interface different from youtube‘s?

YouTube copied a lot of features from pornhub like the heatmap of the most watched parts of a video.

Dang I saw that was a new feature but didn't know they'd actually started borrowing features from porn sites. What the heck is the youtube team doing that they're creating useful features slower than that sort of site?

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Post by pestatije »

desindol wrote: post #3
mccorrinall wrote: post #2

How is the pornhub interface different from youtube‘s?

YouTube copied a lot of features from pornhub like the heatmap of the most watched parts of a video.

oh is that it?...i always wondered...thx for mentioning

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

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

dmonitor wrote: post #41
denton-scratch wrote: post #31

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)

I think because most of these sites are dominated by user uploads, it doesn't really help to have a great tagging system, because inevitably you end up with a huge library of videos with insufficient/wrong tags. Arguably the majority will have shitty tags, lots of misspellings, etc. The consequence is if you did an AND search with 6 tags say, you'd end up exclude most if not all the results that would match your query if properly tagged.

Weeaboo sites seem to be an exception for some reason, probably because the average community member is obsessive/hoardy enough to give a shit about tagging at all.

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Post by jascii »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #44
Akronymus wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I was curious because I am a back-end tech nerd, and apparently "derpibooru" (I had no idea what to expect) is running on Elixir (I assume Phoenix) specifically this: 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…

Fud. To quote section 13 of the AGPL license: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the work with which it is combined will remain governed by version 3 of the GNU General Public License."

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Post by latchkey »

godmode2019 wrote: post #48

I had a friend once tell me that porn was the driving force for innovation on the internet. 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 v…

Speaking as someone who built the IT infrastructure for one of the largest sites on the net, this is absolutely true.

We were the first to do live 1080p streaming. At the time, even finding a hardware mixer for this content was difficult. It was so early that there was only one product available that wasn't just prime time equipment.

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Post by RajT88 »

newswasboring wrote: post #23
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?

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…

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

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Post by IX-103 »

vbezhenar wrote: post #45
wodenokoto wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maximize utility. Maximize search accuracy. Give people what they want rather than string them along for as much time as possible.

So they'll spend next 30 seconds and close your website? Not good for ad profits. Ideally they should spend 10 minutes searching for something, looking at ads, then finally find it and return to this website next day.

Or maybe do a good job so that next time you'll be their first (and only) visit?

It's not like they have a monopoly, so that should be a valid strategy.

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