Peter was a tremendous loss.
The biggest impact YOU see without Peter is that new titles are slower getting into the database.
Other than that, the IAFD is better than it has ever been!

Just the amount of Euro information and obscure performer's headshots alone that Walter Burns has added are staggering!

Jeff has succeeded in herding cats.
Jeff, myself, Walter Burns, Morbid Thoughts, Don, Jamie and Luke bust our asses on a daily basis. You have no idea.
Others help out and make contributions on a less frequent/informal basis.

You think something is missing and/or needs to be corrected, send us an e-mail or post about it here on ADT.
But, please, don't sit here taking misplaced potshots.
It's embarrassing... to you.

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But, as Bob pointed out, in other areas the site has grown tremedously -- people stepped up after our loss, and we'll be working them harder once the proper tools are in place.

Peter's death was a TREMENDOUS loss and we are all discovering how incredibly difficult it is to fill his shoes.

We appreciate your comments and take them to heart.

Bests,

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Your site informs my porn-buying as does no other.

Kudos especially to your use of Den's reviews. They impart by far the most information in the fewest words.

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Bob and Jeff thanks for your explanations about the new title situation. Nice also to learn a bit about the inner workings of the IAFD. Jeff, best of luck with the technical issues that you face. It's interesting to hear about this and I think it's good that people appreciate the nuts and bolts of your efforts there. Thanks all!

Edited by - mrdngm on 4/4/2006 2:19:32 PM

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However, they only cover stuff that they carry. So if its not in their store, you won't find it in her filmography.

They're working on collecting a decent scene info database.

They're structured more like SearchExtreme in that things are broken down into far more detail than I think anyone needs (which is why IAFD is more high level than that detailed -- and it's somewhat the burden of having to then backfill 53,000 titles ;-)

From where I sit, "Facial" tells me all I really need to know -- but they'll go deeper with "Internal - Mouth" vs. "External - Face"

And now a question -- do people use genre tags? Are they of use or interest?

And for those of you who read this far, here's a sneak peek at a prototype we're working on.

http://www.iafd.com/haircolor.asp

(Exciting! ;-)

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And genre tags? I don't particularly use them much, she-male/transsexual genre is all encompassing, there is no tranny/POV or tranny/gonzo genre classification, or is there? Damned if I know anything.

- -B -I -G -m -i -k -e, here and there, over and out! - -

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At the moment we use a variety of sources, not limited to user reviews, AVN, vendor sites, distributor sites...

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At the moment, that's not possible... but with genre tags it would be...

(This assumes the tags would bet filled. :)

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We could, perhaps, paint genres with fairly wide strictly defined and limited categories that can narrow, but not pinpoint, what you're looking for.

Take a BJ series for example.
Let's say there are a few scenes with Black as well as White performers.

Straight > Blowjob

But what if someone thinks even one Black & White scene qualifies as interracial?

Straight > Interracial > Blowjob

What if someone thinks facials are defineable?
How many facial scenes earn an entire movie a facial credit?

Straight > Interracial > Blowjob > Facial

Let's throw swallowing into the mix...

Straight > Interracial > Blowjob > Facial > Swallow

By the time we try to define and include every genre out there, it became useless.
Why?
Because, in my example, the one scene with a Black girl in our Blowjob series movie had the stud cum on her tits.
Which, I would suggest, is NOT what someone who searched for "Straight > Interracial > Blowjob > Facial > Swallow" was searching for or expected.

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I also like to use searchextreme on occasion.

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Time lags, whatever. Best to you guys for all the work you've put in. It is the greatest semi-unsung contribution to the genre I can think of ....

dac

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The IAFD is just about your only source of information about porn movies and performers before the "DVD era" kicked in. For that matter, once a DVD is no longer being stocked, we are often the only "proof" that it ever existed in the first place.

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One of the things I really like about IAFD is the RAME Newsgroup, where you can access old threads about topics of interest.

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We try and use the reviews as a more indepth source, but they're just for the titles...

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The bigger the price, the bigger the commission?

That said they don't constantly update links for the current prices so something might appear more expensive (or cheaper) than if you visit the actual retailer to verify for yourself.

Also depending on when the scene or DVD page was added to the database might determine the list of options.

Older submissions probably had fewer retailers at the time and I doubt they go back to update new retailers they've partnered with.

Some titles also share the same name and might accidentally link to a different scene or product so always best to double check.

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But because they provide both DVDs and downloads, they are usually listed under the DVD section. See this movie for example (it was the first I clicked on - I went to IAFD, clicked on the most popular actress of today, Vina Sky, and then clicked on her first DVD alphabetically).

https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=alien+rhapsody/year=2020/alien-rhapsody.htm

If you go to the Download or VOD section, Adultempire isn't listed. But if you go to the DVD section, Adultempire is there. And if you click on it, you have the option of buying the DVD or downloading etc.

The second movie I clicked on was this one:

https://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=anal+models+5/year=2019/anal-models-5.htm

And it has Adultempire listed in the Download section, but curiously not in the DVD section, but if you click on the link, both options are available.

Is it possible you were tripped up by the name Adultempire instead of Adult DVD Empire?

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It's just I was looking up a whole bunch of old scenes on IAFD yesterday, and the downloads didn't link to AdultEmpire. But then I went to the AdultEmpire site, and those scenes were there, and for like half the price.

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https://www.iafd.com/vendors.asp

We've had a relationship with ADE since we first brought on vendors; they are VendorID #2. (Excalibur, for you trivia buffs, was Vendor #1). ADE runs our branded streaming site. We love ADE. They're certainly listed.

I don't know why the VOD stuff is sporadically linked - as you might imagine, it's all automated, so I'd need to dig into the logs to see where things are breaking down.

Jeff

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[NOTE: I see where we say the pricing isn't live - so if we get the prices at 2 AM but the price on their site changes at 8 AM, we would still show the earlier price until the next day when we'd update it.]

Also depending on when the scene or DVD page was added to the database might determine the list of options.

You could always pop into the advanced search page - https://www.iafd.com/advsearch.asp - and search those 3.1M items directly.

Edited by - Jeff @ IAFD on 1/21/2022 6:14:06 PM

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Like pat, I'd like to go on record and say a heartfelt 'thanks' to the people behind IAFD. You guys deserve more recognition for the work you do.

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Maybe someday aiwards.com can fill that void and add all nominee info too, not just winners if IAFD doesn't care enough to archive that award info some fans are interested in.

That and DVD releases I submit are unpredictable. Some will be approved quickly others will be stuck in the queue indefinitely. Guess it depends on the genre or studio and whichever staff member has an interest in them.

Circling back to the affiliate topic, I would have thought it might be a higher priority to add DVD releases. Potentially missing out on sales (even if not many, any sale I assume helps the site; monthly hosting costs aren't cheap unless they have some kind of historical grant though I doubt any foundation would want their financial support to be linked to porn...)

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...and yes, all awards are marketing tools for the industry, with a systematic bias towards the companies that care to market themselves.

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I can't even begin to imagine how many times I've used IAFD over the 15+ years.

I am a sports "stat geek" ... but I also like to collect porn star "stats". Female and male.
Basically an A-Z, year-by-year history of their performing career. IAFD is INVALUABLE because of this.

To the members of IAFD: Countless thank you's for the services you provide :)

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Edited by - mcewan on 1/23/2022 1:45:15 AM

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"Suggest, discuss and participate in making corrections and additions to the Internet's premier porn database directly with IAFD administrators"

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