Blog
Methodology, UX and ranking updates. Short notes on what changed on FapStarsDB and why.
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feature data
Scenes now have a calendar: browse the catalog by the month it dropped
The scenes list answered what we index and stayed silent on when. The release dates were in the data and had no surface, so we added one. /calendar/ is a year to month to scenes cascade: 22 year cards each with a sparkline of their own months, a month row where every tile carries the real release count and a fill bar, and the scenes themselves underneath, opened in the same popup the rest of the site uses. The whole page rides on the index /scenes/ already loads, bucketed by year and month in the browser, so there's no new query, no second copy of data, and none of it loads anywhere except the calendar page itself. The header reads 38,051 dated scenes across 2005 to 2026, and that's indexed, dated content only, not every scene a studio ever shipped.
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feature data
A statistical portrait of the roster, on every site page
Site pages were good at the granular question (who is on this studio, how many scenes each) and silent on the shape of the whole roster. So we added a Roster analytics panel: median age on set, scenes per performer, share of the roster still shooting, share that appears nowhere else in our catalog, plus hair, ethnicity and nationality splits. Everything is computed at build time from the same enrichment that fills the performer pages, nothing is typed by hand. We deliberately cut the stats that read identical on every studio (median height was 160-165 cm everywhere, most common cup a B almost always) and kept the ones that actually swing site to site: seen-only-here ranges from 2 to 96 percent across our catalog, scenes per performer from 1.0 to 6.8, nationality from all-Czech to mostly-American. Every metric carries a fill gate, so a thin studio drops the rows it cannot stand behind instead of guessing.
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ui feature
Finding a pornstar on FapStarsDB just got a real filter
The old filter was a row of dropdowns that worked for one choice and broke for two: pick Latina then big tits with no combo page built, and it silently dropped one of them. This week we rebuilt it. The filter moved to a left sidebar (a drawer on mobile), the main dimensions became pills, and active filters now show as removable chips above the grid so accumulation is visible. The redirect logic was rewritten to only send you to a dedicated page when one covers your whole selection, otherwise it filters in place. Nationality got fixed twice over: the five-item dropdown became a real 28-nation checkbox facet driven by the data, and five nations that used to fold into the European umbrella (Czech, Russian, British, Hungarian, Brazilian) now have their own category pages.
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feature data
Pornstars by platform: who's on OnlyFans, Instagram and Twitter
People look for performers sideways as often as by name: who's on OnlyFans, who actually posts on Twitter, which Instagram still exists. We had the data and nowhere to point it, so we shipped the first version of platform lists. There's a hub at /pornstars/on/ with seven lists under it (OnlyFans, Fansly, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit), each running the same filter bar as the rest of the site (search, ethnicity, hair, body, age, niche) but pre-scoped to one platform. Cards link to the full FapStarsDB profile, where the handle lives. It's a pilot, and we're honest about the catch: the handles aren't verified yet and there are no follower counts, so every list carries a freshness note and nothing wears a verified badge until it earns one.
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ui structure
Networks now have their own page, and member sites know they're members
FapStarsDB used to treat every site as a standalone catalog, which broke the moment we started indexing offers that share a single membership across a dozen sister sites. We've shipped two surfaces: umbrella pages at /site/{hub}/ for the eleven network hubs we currently track (Mom Lover, Brazzers, Nubiles Porn, Adult Time, and seven more), and a small sky-tone bar on every member site that links back to its hub. Per-performer network pages stay off on purpose. The performer page itself still doesn't show networks anywhere, and we're not pretending otherwise.
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ui experiment
Testing two changes to the performer blocks on every site page
On a site page the featured strip used to fire whenever there were more than five performers, regardless of whether any of them really had more scenes than the rest. And the cards never hinted whether a performer is a studio's regular or just a one-shoot drop-in. We are testing two changes side by side at /site/younger-mommy/: a smarter rule that only shows the featured block when there is real distribution, and a small piece of catalog context on every card.
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ui methodology
Why we folded the filmography section on every performer page
The performer page used to show the same scene thumbnail twice — once as a studio card on top, once again in the scenes grid below. We replaced the two sections with one folded layout where each studio is a row and its scenes nest inside. There's also a sort toolbar now, and the default order changed from “most scenes” to “latest activity.”
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