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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 numpad0 »

boredumb wrote: post #46
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.

I assume this is because the YT annoying dumb face thing is simply less enticing than ... the scenes and "expressions" they can get away with on a porn site. I'd guess a large set of youtube creators would be more risque and scantily clad in their thumbnails if YT would allow it. So... let's just be glad YT only allows mouths to be agape on the thumbnails you have to scroll past.

No, thumbnails tend to look more like actual thumbnails; a frame in the middle of a video sequence, or figures from a scientific paper, than an excerpt from a tabloid paper.

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Post by latchkey »

I built the IT infrastructure for one of the largest hardcore porn sites out there.

When we did a complete rebuild of it (because it was in horrible PHP code), we tried to do a redesign and the CEO of the company made us change it back.

Why? Because it was too nice and the UX was too good.

He told us that his customers actually appreciated a more 'dirty' and 'raw' feel to the site. It is porn after all!

So, we went back to the drawing board and did just that... many of the changes we made to the UX were reverted to intentionally make things a bit harder to use and make the site feel more 'dirty'... which is funny given the content was already super dirty.

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Post by jason-phillips »

sbf501 wrote: post #87
thomastjeffery wrote: post #67

The worst thing about data driven UX - especially with porn - is that it's often a self fulfilling prophecy. Trends that are likely side-effects are considered to be primary factors driving engagement. With porn, it's usually a fetish that is only moderately popular, but broadly unoffensive. Because the average person who isn't specifically interested in the fetish isn't turned off by it either, that fetish gets more…

> but really took off over the last few years with "step sibling" porn. Even one of the Mortys in R&M made a wish that "inc*st porn have more a mainstream appeal." My partner both winced at that and said to each other, "Did he just say what I think he said?" So maybe I'm just too old and traditional (despite being queer)?

It's ok to say incest. And fuck, too.

It's a joke. However, if you've seen Dan Harmon's early work, it does make you wonder.

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Post by throwaway9284 »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #67

The worst thing about data driven UX - especially with porn - is that it's often a self fulfilling prophecy. Trends that are likely side-effects are considered to be primary factors driving engagement. With porn, it's usually a fetish that is only moderately popular, but broadly unoffensive. Because the average person who isn't specifically interested in the fetish isn't turned off by it either, that fetish gets more…

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

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Post by numpad0 »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #67

The worst thing about data driven UX - especially with porn - is that it's often a self fulfilling prophecy. Trends that are likely side-effects are considered to be primary factors driving engagement. With porn, it's usually a fetish that is only moderately popular, but broadly unoffensive. Because the average person who isn't specifically interested in the fetish isn't turned off by it either, that fetish gets more…

Just a guess but: I suspect a bit that foot thing might be to lower fractions of NSFW parts in an image for otherwise SFW websites(e.g. Twitter), and also to appease older demographic because it is often argued that fetish move downwards as people ages. "Step sibling" is just a successor to "teen" and "schoolgirl" for ban avoidance. There are chances that a successor will appear in 3-5 years and my instinct says it could be a nationality tag.

> because convergence is essentially the goal of data driven production in the first place.

But what comes after an ultimate convergence - let's say, a 3:45 minutes long .mp4 file of an incomprehensible psychedelic rainbow mosaic that cause a strong euphoria to any singular entity of a primate species born in or before 2022 - will audiences not adapt to it? And when they consume the stimuli, how does the convergence sustain? There will have to be a change of trend, and a novel oddity to be normalized will have to be brought in from outside the industry, I think.

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

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Post by hammock »

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

It's actually patented by a porn site and YouTube pays them for the licensed use of it

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

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Post by Der_Einzige »

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)

That fucking website man. I literally googled the MSG "e number" one time, which is "e621" and in that moment my innocence was ruined.

Is it also surprising that the "booru" websites, which are likely frequented by the most ASD of the ASD inflicted men, would be well cataloged? It is simply what our brains do.

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

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Post by Zaskoda »

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…

Gaming is why the pipes are fast. Porn is why the pipes are fat.

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

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Post by jimbob45 »

latchkey wrote: post #92

I built the IT infrastructure for one of the largest hardcore porn sites out there. When we did a complete rebuild of it (because it was in horrible PHP code), we tried to do a redesign and the CEO of the company made us change it back. Why? Because it was too nice and the UX was too good. He told us that his customers actually appreciated a more 'dirty' and 'raw' feel to the site. It is porn after all! So, we went b…

Oddly enough, I somewhat agree with your CEO. In the hypothetical scenario where I would ever visit a porn site, I wouldn't ever want to feel like I'm being funneled anywhere. I would already not trust the site and feeling funneled would make me wary of falling into a scam/exploit/trap, even though most sites would most likely only ever want ad money and would never care to scam/exploit/trap me.
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