Comment by notanormalnerd

4 days ago

You know who has great information density? Pornhub. If you open Pornhub on a 4K screen, you will absolutely see none of the thumbnails. I think YouTube is overdoing it, but it is really a thing of: people are either using really small screens or 1080p. 4K is still not around much.

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Nextgrid  4 days ago

Because unlike YouTube, porn is an actually competitive industry with plenty of “tube” sites to choose from. So they have to compete on UX.

  • chrneu  4 days ago

    There's an old adage that if you follow the tech that porn adopts, you'll generally be ahead the average consumer curve.

    I think there's another version that if porn adopts a tech that means that the tech will work. Like, a lot of VR adoption early on was porn. By a lot, I mean most.

    • IAmBroom  3 days ago

      Has VR caught on? Genuine question; I am not a gamer, but I see no real adoption elsewhere. The occasional movie is offered in 3D, but it's generally post-rendered, which makes the effect crappier - and it's occasional, not the majority.

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  • podgorniy  3 days ago

    Aah, the free market quazimonopolies avoid and despise at all costs (usually carried by customers)

  • komali2  4 days ago

    Google "Ethical Capital Partners."

    Operates:

    Pornhub

    RedTube

    YouPorn

    Brazzers

    Digital Playground Men.com

    Reality Kings

    SpankWire

    • theideaofcoffee  4 days ago

      Not sure what this comment is getting at. Those may be the collection of sites owned by a single company, but there are still -oceans- of porn of every conceivable niche, on hundreds of thousands of sites, some still bigger than those. Whereas there’s pretty much a single, monopolized provider for mainstream video: youtube. And a porn conglomerate is the problem? GP is still correct, there’s still real competition in the space, unlike youtube.

makeitdouble  4 days ago

Yes. 1080p screen density is still so popular. Looking around new laptops it's still the bulk in Windows land, including OLED and ultra high refresh rate monitors. Same for TVs.

Even on macs many are using scaling factors that render close to 1080p.

The issue really would be why YouTube can't bother managing more layouts. It still blows my mind there's only one single YouTube experience per platform, when their viewership basically span the world's population.

  • array_key_first  3 days ago

    On laptops more than 1080p (or an aspect ratio equivalent) is just a waste. Less battery life and everything is too small to see anyway so you have to scale.

    • makeitdouble  2 days ago

      Higher DPI is still pretty nice and noticeable for people who spend their life reading/peeking (including comic books, art etc.).

      I feel more people would benefit from better screens even for their reports or excel work, but I wouldn't be holding my breath on most standard companies paying for it if there's no OSHA style law mandating it.

      > battery life

      I think we've reach a decent place, even the Surface Pro line with around 3K displays has double digit battery life for office type tasks.

  • gessha  3 days ago

    Because they fired a bunch of engineers, fired/reorged the PMs and whoever is left is working on the AI shlop.