NameThatPornstar Review

The premise fits in a line and the site prints it: supply the address of a photograph, gallery or clip, and other people identify who is in it. Crowd-sourced identification solves the cases that automated matching cannot — an unusual angle, a bad frame, a performer who worked under several names — because a human recognises a tattoo where software sees noise.

The board around it is ordinary but adequate. Requests are queued and categorised, a full tag list runs down the page, comments carry the answers, and registering lets you post your own. It is a small machine built for one job.

Getting to it is the problem. Eighteen outside destinations load above the site's own content, so the first screen belongs almost entirely to other people's businesses, and an account is needed before you can do anything beyond reading. Nothing published indicates what share of requests are ever answered, which for a service whose entire value is the answer rate is the number a visitor most wants.