Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think Ning would work. For one, it's all about getting people to join the community, which is too high a barrier for most

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think Ning would work. For one, it's all about getting people to join the community, which is too high a barrier for most people to post a classified ad real quick. For another, Ning's design and community management backend is oriented to getting you to add more stuff. It's not at all intuitive (for the community manager) to create an interface and section architecture that'll be intuitive to visitors. I'd like to hand this site off to someone who lives here, who isn't as web savvy as your average HN member, and not worry about the service they're using making it easy for them to decrease usability and usefulness of the site.