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In my book Craigslist is good software. Looks the same as it did 10 years ago, does the job, works in the shittiest browsers imaginable.

by 0xbear 9y ago

jwcacces 9y ago
Is there any chance in the world that Craigslist has not been continuously updated and maintained behind the scenes, regardless of the stability of the UI look and feel?
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projectramo 9y ago
I agree with the points you made: 1. It is good software 2. It looks the same as it did 10 years ago Although I don't know for sure, I suspect it has been updated, modified, debugged and so on quite actively over the last 10 years.
- mgkimsal 9y ago
  their business practices and model has changed some over the past 15+ years as well - some posts are charged for, more opportunities to report spam, etc. if it was 100% the same system it was 15 years ago, it wouldn't survive.
- jmknoll 9y ago
  A pretty basic example, but one which illustrates your earlier point pretty well. Even if we assume that it were a perfect piece of software 10 years ago, craigslist, at some point within the past few years, updated its CSS to include @media rules to display properly on mobile browsers. This update needed to be made in order to support an entire class of devices that didn't exist 10 years ago.
s73ver 9y ago
Are you trying to suggest that Craigslist hasn't been updated in that 10 years? The UI might not have, but I guarantee you that various changes in business direction and in regulation have required Craigslist to make changes to the software running their servers.
burnstek 9y ago
It takes a large technical team to pull this off: https://www.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring https://www.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring
city41 9y ago
Craigslist has surely had to keep up with browser updates, new browsers, new mobile devices, etc. There's no way the Craigslist codebase of today is the same as 10 years ago.

In my book Craigslist is good software. Looks the same as it did 10 years ago, does the job, works in the shittiest browsers imaginable.

by 0xbear 9y ago

In my book Craigslist is good software. Looks the same as it did 10 years ago, does the job, works in the shittiest browsers imaginable.

jwcacces 9y ago

Is there any chance in the world that Craigslist has not been continuously updated and maintained behind the scenes, regardless of the stability of the UI look and feel?

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projectramo 9y ago

I agree with the points you made: 1. It is good software 2. It looks the same as it did 10 years ago Although I don't know for sure, I suspect it has been updated, modified, debugged and so on quite actively over the last 10 years.

mgkimsal 9y ago
their business practices and model has changed some over the past 15+ years as well - some posts are charged for, more opportunities to report spam, etc. if it was 100% the same system it was 15 years ago, it wouldn't survive.
jmknoll 9y ago
A pretty basic example, but one which illustrates your earlier point pretty well. Even if we assume that it were a perfect piece of software 10 years ago, craigslist, at some point within the past few years, updated its CSS to include @media rules to display properly on mobile browsers. This update needed to be made in order to support an entire class of devices that didn't exist 10 years ago.

s73ver 9y ago

Are you trying to suggest that Craigslist hasn't been updated in that 10 years? The UI might not have, but I guarantee you that various changes in business direction and in regulation have required Craigslist to make changes to the software running their servers.

burnstek 9y ago

It takes a large technical team to pull this off: https://www.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring https://www.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring

city41 9y ago

Craigslist has surely had to keep up with browser updates, new browsers, new mobile devices, etc. There's no way the Craigslist codebase of today is the same as 10 years ago.