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).
“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.
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.
Every hiring manager I know only cares about what you worked on, not who you worked for.
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.