I’ve noticed that many porn websites, especially those presenting galleries of images, seem to function similarly and have similar design and features. Are there only a small number of people or companies who do this? Where are they? Are there software companies who specialise in this market? What’s the whole internet porn business ecosystem like these days?
Can’t say that I know anything about the internet porn industry (from the industry side), but in general whenever you see something using some sort of templating software, the bottom of all the webpages will say that they’re being produced by such-and-such software. If you don’t see that, then a pretty good guess would be that a lot of sites are actually the same company, just different URLs connecting to separate databases.
But, I might very well be wrong and there is some sort of high-end porn publishing software that doesn’t self-advertise. No idea.
He may be referring to the fact that alot of porn sites seem to duplicate themselves. Like a site will have alot of links at the bottom that send you to different looking sites but the content is all exactly the same.
While looking for templates for something else, I stumbled across a site that sold both normal webpage templates, and ones clearly intended for porn sites both. I don’t feel like clicking the links this brings up, but google “webpage templates adult” and you should see several if you care to click those links. The phrase gets 215,000 hits, so it seems like there are a number of vendors.