XTube sags under weight of own success

Angus Kidman
Monday, 14 May 2007 19:57

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YouTube's pornographic rival XTube appears to be suffering from its own popularity, with the video sharing site apologising to users for a spate of bugs..

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As recently as March, XTube, which offers similar video-sharing facilities to sites such as YouTube but, unlike most mainstream alternatives, also permits X-rated content, was boasting about crossing the two million member mark. Now, however, the site has acknowledged that growth seems to have come at a cost.

"Your favorite Porn site has been very hard at work, responding to your emails, phone calls and IMs," its most recent member email notes. "We hear you loud and clear and as you may already know, we have taken our ENTIRE PROGRAMMING STAFF and placed them on bug fixing. Website performance is our focus right now."

Despite that switch in approach, relief may be some time in coming. "It is important for all our members to know that working on bugs, testing, changing, fixing, tinkering is a process that also creates new bugs," the newsletter continues. "So, if you spot a bug please, please report it."