Tighten the scope of the "recommended videos" list
The idea behind the "recommended videos" list is great, but in practice, it doesn't work out as well as it's supposed to. The major problem is the way it uses tags (I assume?) to locate related videos. There are too many different factors to consider in the appeal of a video to simply pigeonhole them like that.
For example, if I watch a CFNM video - say, women giving blowjobs at a male strip club - it might be tagged as "men". Suddenly, my recommended videos list is full of gay porn, which is not at all what I'm interested in. Maybe I watch a video of a woman "cheating on her husband" with a guy who just happens to be black. Does that mean I'm necessarily into BBC videos? No, not at all.
I suggest you good folks at Xhamster look into improving the algorithm used to generate related videos. For example, use search terms, rather than tags, to find recommended content. Look at a user's full search history for a given session, and weigh that against the tags on any given video.
As it stands, I'm lucky if one video out of thirty recommendations tickles my fancy. This makes it relatively useless as a tool for finding new content. Please work on harnessing the incredible potential of this system to the best of your ability.
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C commented
Interesting that the status of this is "completed", but xhamster hasn't posted a response. Has recommended section improved since 2014? @jacknoff247 would be interested in your thoughts aye, cause these problems still seem to happen to me.
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Ben commented
I started a new suggestion to better the recommended videos here:
http://suggestions.xhamster.com/forums/59059-general/suggestions/30920932-using-cumulation-of-searchterms-together-with-cumu
Since this is marked as "completed" but the recommended videos are still not really recommendable. ;)