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Hacker News is the craigslist of Social News sites.
by kierank 16y ago
Hacker News is the craigslist of Social News sites.
- stanleydrew 16y agoBut I hate using craigslist. I only use it because I have to.
- seunosewa 16y agoWhat do you hate about it?
- stanleydrew 16y agoI hate apartment search. It's so so painful. Their data model is all wrong. Location is the most important thing about an apartment in my opinion. That should be the primary method by which you search. And they've tried, but you end up searching within these broad "neighborhoods" in the bigger US cities. And a lot of people mischaracterize their apartment's location in order to make it seem nicer or whatever. Why is craigslist wasting my time? Require posters to put in the actual address or at least an intersection for their apartment. Then show me the postings on a map. Something like hotpads.com works really well for me, but they don't have the volume that craigslist does, so I'm stuck.
- ible 16y agoCheck out padmapper.com does a nice maps mashup of craigslist plus other sources. May still not work if the data in your city is too poor, but works great for me.
- ericd 16y agoHeh thanks for the plug. And to grandparent, PadMapper basically strips away all the listings which don't have an address, which incidentally gets rid of a lot of the spam.
- random42 16y agoBut I hate using craigslist. I only use it because I have to. Now, Thats some value creation.