Our writers

Born on 14 March 1988 in Manchester, Erin Callaghan came to reviewing through interface design rather than through entertainment writing. She spent her twenties documenting how streaming platforms are actually built — recommendation feeds that never end, paywalls that appear three clicks in, sign-up flows engineered to be harder to leave than to enter. She moved to adult platforms for a simple reason: it is the corner of the web where those mechanics are the most aggressive and the least documented.

At Xsitelist she covers the English listings, mainly free streaming, cam platforms and amateur catalogues. Her working measure is the number of steps between arriving on a site and actually watching something, and what the platform takes from you along the way — an account, a card number, an identity scan, or simply your attention. She writes early in the morning, keeps a running list of sites that quietly changed their access rules, and distrusts anything that calls itself premium without saying what changes.

Born on 2 September 1985 in Lyon, Julien Marchand was an integration developer before he was a writer. He spent nearly ten years taking interfaces apart from the inside — checkout funnels, ad networks, tracking layers — first for e-commerce clients, then on his own account when he grew tired of building what he had started criticising.

At Xsitelist he covers the French listings, with a focus on what actually works from France: geo-blocking, mandatory identity checks, whether a VPN is genuinely required or merely recommended by someone earning a commission. He counts ad interruptions by hand rather than judging by feel, because the difference between moderate and invasive is a number, not an impression. He is the one who insists a listing be downgraded when a site adds an ID wall.

Born on 27 June 1990 in Leipzig, Annika Reinhardt trained in information science and spent her first working years in digital archives, where the entire job is deciding what belongs where and defending that decision afterwards. She started writing about online catalogues because she kept finding the same failure everywhere: platforms that hold enormous amounts of material and give you no honest way to find any of it.

At Xsitelist she covers the German listings and, across all four languages, the categories where classification matters most — hentai, comics, manga and image boards, where a bad tagging system makes a large library useless. She also handles the no-ID-required category, the one German-speaking readers ask about most since age-verification laws started shifting. She is unmoved by catalogue size and asks instead how long it takes to find one specific thing.

Born on 19 November 1983 in Valencia, Rubén Alcázar began in consumer journalism, on the least glamorous beat there is: subscriptions. For years he tested what companies sell, then tested what happens when you try to stop paying for it — a gap that turned out to be where most of the real story lives.

At Xsitelist he covers the Spanish listings and, across all four languages, the paid categories: premium platforms, exclusive content and adult dating. His rule is blunt. No listing gets a rating above four until it survives the question of what happens when you cancel. He reads terms of service in full, notes which platforms auto-renew without warning, and considers a subscription that is easy to start and hard to end a defect worth a full point.