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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.
And the lack of crypto payments for porn should be a strong sign that it’s useless.
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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
Why is infinite scrolling not more popular with these sites?
I also wonder why TikTok style infinite scroll auto play isn't an option
They're optimized for short form, continuously scrolling, mini videos. They don't do the recommendation algorithm though, at least not for free users.
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And the lack of crypto payments for porn should be a strong sign that it’s useless.
There are crypto payments for porn tho
I can't believe I'd never made that connection, but it's dead on. If crypto can't even take over porn payments, which are practically an ideal case for the technology, it's not taking over anything else meaningful, either. Now that it's been pointed out, it seems obvious.
( note to self: keep an eye out for headlines re: Mindgeek or similar creating a crypto currency, and invest in it pronto if that happens, because it'll mean they found a way to make it broadly useful )
Why is infinite scrolling not more popular with these sites?
Because it actually sucks. Pages and tabs are much more useful.
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…
2k -> 4k -> 6k -> 8k side-by-side video over the course of a 4-5 years.
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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…
I think that orgasms add to the experience, you cum to something and next time you probably will want to view content similar to that.
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.
Not? Some belong to a French guy in Czechia IIRC.
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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?
Porn was the first to adopt portable cameras. VHS. DVDs. Credit card payments for online. Chat. Webcams. VR. 4K (not the best idea). etc.
For many years, the Adult Entertainment Expo and CES were held simultaneously in Vegas. And the AES tech talks were often better as CES tended to blur the line between marketing and tech while at AES the marketing/sales and tech were ... more strongly delineated.
Oh, hey, look at that. For 2023, they're back to being on the same date. Presumably attendance at both is sufficiently off that they needed to consolidate again.