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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by newswasboring on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:52AM (#32835867)
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 if I'm wrong.

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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by stavros on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:56AM (#32835913)
Probably, but you still want to maximize the amount of time users are on the site, or the amount of pages they visit. Orgasms are just an additional complication, I'd imagine.
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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by andrewinardeer on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:29AM (#32836196)
TikTok, Netflix, Instagram and other sites specifically designed to be sticky (no pun intended) also have this problem although it isn't orgasms. It is that people need to sleep.
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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by prmoustache on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:16AM (#32838412)
I would say their main problem is the amount of bathrooms available per person.
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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by saagarjha on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:10AM (#32836036)
Why? I’d optimize for ad views. More time watching is more of my bandwidth.
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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by newswasboring on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @10:00AM (#32837301)
Agreed, the goal is the same. But my point is that additional complication is unique to this industry and looks unlike any other behavior UX tackles
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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by snow_mac on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:13PM (#32839271)
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.
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Re:The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate M... by newswasboring on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:35PM (#32841337)
Yes, true. But I don't think the good people over at pornhub are targeting for this. They are targeting longest watch time.
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