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I seem to recall mostly parasites who wanted to bootstrap their businesses off craigslist's audience and data who where shocked, shocked! when craigslist didn't
by x0x0 11y ago
I seem to recall mostly parasites who wanted to bootstrap their businesses off craigslist's audience and data who where shocked, shocked! when craigslist didn't agree to let them do so.
Craigslist is virtually unique in that they don't charge most users anything and don't have any plans to do so, and I'm happy to see them defend their platform despite its warts. They've hooked me up with 5 apartments, a SO, and at least 3 jobs.
- Obi_Juan_Kenobi 11y agoPadmapper was the main one, right? What's tricky there is that they provided a wonderful user interface, but used Craigslist data. Since CL refuses to update their UI (and for potentially good reason), I find it hard to justify a monopoly on displaying their data. The links still go back to the CL listings, unless I'm misunderstanding the dispute. I fail to see what is unethical about that.
- x0x0 11y agohttp://www.padlister.com/ http://www.padlister.com/ Let's not pretend padmapper was just making a nice interface; the clear goal was to use postings from CL, get people to use padmapper, then migrate them to padlister. Where they charge fees, with more fees on the way the second they get any business leverage, given they are/where a VC funded company.