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I don't get why you can't search for anything across the towns. If I'm looking for something hard to find but is reasonably shippable, I might want to take the
by jasonkostempski 10y ago
I don't get why you can't search for anything across the towns. If I'm looking for something hard to find but is reasonably shippable, I might want to take the risk of a trusting the seller or work out some escrow type thing.
- brixon 10y agoIt is likely a technology issue that Craigslist may not desire to fix. It is possible that each city is a different database instance. That is a simple way to scale, but has issues like you are seeing.
- tspike 10y agoThey have taken the explicit view that Craigslist is a local service. Providing cross-city functionality would undermine that view.
- freehunter 10y agoI actually live between three of the cities listed in my area, they're all about 20 miles from my house and part of the same metropolitan statistical area. Being able to search LA and SF at the same time might be silly, but being able to search two or three very close cities is not IMO.