I always wonder what is considered NSFW in those offices.
But it's interesting what types of specific UX is created for adult tube sites. For example, on pornhub, it shows which times of the video are viewed by more people using a flame graph type visual above the video timeline. Example of getting the user to value as quick as possible (skip the 'boring' parts).
I suppose the flame graph feature developer could then write on their resume:
“reduced bandwidth costs by $X millions per year by implementing a ‘content of interest’ data visualization. Users’ time-to-success improved 5%”
That kind of thing makes me wonder what sort of high caliber developers go into this field. Lotta good engineering going on within this, uh, unique, high volume traffic situation.
> That kind of thing makes me wonder what sort of high caliber developers go into this field.
I read long ago that having a porn site on your resume was a pretty strong black mark with non-porn companies, even if you were a developer. Since there's so little crossover an experience sharing between mainstream developers and porn site developers, porn site engineering tended to be relatively sub par. My guess is few high caliber developers go into porn site engineering.
Surely it depends which site - the big sites have serious scale and engineering challenges which will outweigh the seediness aspect while the vast majority of sites are just a CMS paired with a payment processor integration.
Definitely not true. I think every developer understands that porn is pushing the limits of technology. If I saw someone coming from any of the big sites I'd definitely be interested in what they worked on.
Every hiring manager I know only cares about what you worked on, not who you worked for.
If these devs are high caliber, they don't mind the paltry pay. Mindgeek (the Canadian company that owns most NSFW tube sites) is notorious for low engineering pay.
Sometimes I'm thinking about working for decent porn site like pornhub or anything else from their network. It seems in this day and age it is the last thing that brings pure joy and happiness to its customers. If you know what I mean ;-)
Man pornography will die in its own fire. It's quest for optimization and hyperinflation (sic) is sick. That's most probably how brains get addicted short/intense/void.
Maybe. But then again, the "viewership density graph" mentioned by GP, as well as animated previews when hovering over a movie thumbnail, or image previews when you hover over the timeline, or labels on the timeline that tell you what's happening at which point - those are all AFAIK innovations of the porn industry, that are still rarely seen elsewhere, and yet I'd classify them as purely delivering value to the user. In fact, I believe that a streaming service that doesn't implement these features is subpar and is not really designing a user-empowering interface.
Yeah I know that porn streaming videos websites were extremely ~progressists in terms of tech use. Things like youtube got previews years after the fact. But it saddens me twice that only porn websites are doing this u_u;
It does say something about social energy.. (and ~free market in a way). When people just want something, they can happen real fast and real cheap.
But it's interesting what types of specific UX is created for adult tube sites. For example, on pornhub, it shows which times of the video are viewed by more people using a flame graph type visual above the video timeline. Example of getting the user to value as quick as possible (skip the 'boring' parts).