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How is the pornhub interface different from youtube‘s?
by mccorrinall 4y ago
How is the pornhub interface different from youtube‘s?
- desindol 4y agoYouTube copied a lot of features from pornhub like the heatmap of the most watched parts of a video.
- thaufeki 4y agoAlso, these sites had a play on hovering over a video thumbnail feature that youtube copied
- hackernewds 4y agoTo be fair these seem like naturally intuitive and simple ideas
- hammock 4y agoIt's actually patented by a porn site and YouTube pays them for the licensed use of it
- groffee 4y agoSource? I don't see any possible way a thumbnail playing on hover is patentable.
- hammock 4y agoCan’t find a source for my actual claim but here is a similar patent that Google claimed themselves: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9363579B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US9363579B2/en
- mrguyorama 4y agoIt was so natural and intuitive that Youtube's version STILL doesn't compare to how good, fast, seemless, and unintrusive it is done on the porn sites, years later.
- rudasn 4y ago...once someone else had thought about it and executed them in an intuive manner
- alenrozac 4y ago...like Google Earth?
- RF_Savage 4y agoWhich was Googles version of NASA WorldWind?
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- mtmail 4y agoTerravision existed prior (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infringement/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infr...)
- SllX 4y agoThey probably got it from Snow Crash. The oldest surviving globes of the known world date back to 1492 according to Wikipedia and the Greeks probably created their own variations a few millennia ago. Turtles, turtles, turtles! All the way down.
- flappyeagle 4y agoyou just described the definition of good design
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- tomger 4y ago... like searching for text on the internet
- collegeburner 4y agoDang 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?
- bsder 4y agoPorn has generally been a frontrunner of tech. If anything, that has slowed down recently. 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.
- profburneracct 4y ago
- l33t233372 4y agoI take issue with that assessment. Porn sites exist in a fiercely competitive environment AND they are profitable. These are two features that Youtube lacks and their presence on porn sites reflects (at least partially) favorably on their engineering quality/innovation.
- smabie 4y agoYep, totally agree. porn sites exist in an highly adverse environment.
- collegeburner 4y agointeresting i had the impression most sites were controlled by a very few companies. but tbh i can't say i know much about the space.
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- pestatije 4y agooh is that it?...i always wondered...thx for mentioning
- pawelduda 4y agoPeople in thumbnails make weird facial expressions for different reasons
- Semaphor 4y ago> 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.
- hugh-avherald 4y agoThat would seem to suggest that the obnoxious YT-style thumbnails are mainly driven by children. (Or, at least, with strictly adult-only audiences they don't appear.)
- Semaphor 4y agoYT uploads with "the face" are by the creator, porn uploads are mainly by random people pirating porn someone else made.
- Chris2048 4y agoThis assumes that market/demographic alone dictates the thumbnail. But context matters too.
- account42 4y agoAre you assuming that children don't browse porn sites?
- boredumb 4y agoI 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.
- ksherlock 4y agoClickbait vs masturbate.
- seydor 4y agoPornhub doesnt hide the upload date like youtube does