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> We actually don’t use placeholders when we are developing the sites! In the end, what matters is the code and functionality, the interface is something we are
by acatton 6y ago
> We actually don’t use placeholders when we are developing the sites! In the end, what matters is the code and functionality, the interface is something we are very used to at this point.
Interesting... 5 years ago I was contacted by a recruiter for a job offer in a (sic) "non-standard industry". Back then, "fullstack development" was the job trend for "people who deal with computers".
During the first call, she told me her client was the biggest adult website in my EU country of origin. She insisted that the working environment was (sic) "clean".
I raised that topic during my interview with their CTO. He told me the opposite of this post: devs were running the website locally with place-holders and innocent cartoons videos. He was straight-forward about it and mentioned "of course, once in a while you have check an issue on the live website, the way we handle this is by joking about the live content between us."
For those interested, they had a pretty standard stack for such a high volume website. Postgres, Django, Redis and RabbitMQ with an HAProxy frontend.
- raziel2p 6y agoI doubt the interviewee meant "we" as in the entire adult entertainment industry, just their particular employer or team.
- acatton 6y agoOh.. Sorry, maybe my phrasing was wrong. I was just surprised that some adult websites would just not do that. If it sounded like I was implying that he was talking about the entire industry, that was not my intent.
- jilles 6y agoI am actually very curious what adult website uses Django? My understanding was that most of them are written in PHP and re-used across various domain names.
- conradfr 6y agoJacquie et Michel, which is a very popular site in France, uses Django.
- acatton 6y agoI'm the top comment poster. And, yes, the company in question was the company behind this website.
- acatton 6y agoIt's the website mentioned by conradfr. It is basically the French equivalent of Brazzers. We talk about the history of the stack during my job interview. From my understanding the two founders of the website started by just hiring freelancers on short contracts to update/fix a growing PHP/MySQL codebase. When their business started to become profitable, they hired full time devs, and gave them carte blanche. (the two original founders have no clue about tech) The team just rewrote the whole thing in Django.
- mtnGoat 6y agoyour understanding is correct, the two/three original code bases many tube sites started with was all written in PHP. in fact i cant think of any widespread use of any other language at all, in adult.
- latchkey 6y agoWhen I was working for Kink (one of the largest hardcore sites based in San Francisco) and developing their new site, we intentionally picked MaleWank to be the first site we converted over to the new platform. Looking at that content all day long was a lot of motivation to get the site done faster and provided endless hours of quality entertainment. It was done in the early days of the company and wasn't particularly high traffic or quality so it made a good test case. The whole 'not safe for work' thing didn't apply at the company at all. You don't go work for a company like that without being fully aware of what you're going to see. Long after I left, they re-did the platform again and that site disappeared and now just redirects to the main site. =(
- dalfonso 6y agoJust curious, is there a different reason to use “sic” besides spelling errors?
- 0-O-0 6y agoI assume that in this case it indicates a direct quote.
- villahousut 6y agoIt literally means "really", to direct the reader that an incredulous comment or spelling error came from the source