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1) First thing I noticed was that it didn't auto select/suggest the nearest city for me. Going to craigslist.com automatically redirects me to washingtondc.crai
by troygoode 16y ago
1) First thing I noticed was that it didn't auto select/suggest the nearest city for me. Going to craigslist.com automatically redirects me to washingtondc.craigslist.com (which I can then change if I want to).
2) I went to the last page and found Washington, DC. Upon clicking the text "Washington DC" in the City column I get the following error:
Invalid city
3) If I instead click the text "DC" in the State column, it navigates me to the following URL (which obviously doesn't actually do anything):
http://www.swippet.com/#"
After that, I gave up.
I think CraigsList is an interesting choice to target. They've been notoriously slow to adopt new features or update their look/feel. Perhaps this is the secret to their success, or perhaps it leaves them ripe for the picking. Either way, good luck and let me know when you've got DC working.
- joe_the_user 16y agoCraigslist only auto-selects based on your previous visits. When I clear cookies and go to craigslist.org, I have to select cities too.
- troygoode 16y agoHmmm, well in that case, both sites are doing it wrong. :-) It wouldn't be too difficult to use geolocation on the user to determine the nearest supported city and store it in a cookie for them.
- ydant 16y agoThe URL gets a ",", but it doesn't work. If you instead go to: http://www.swippet.com/swippet-domain.html?area=Washington%20DC http://www.swippet.com/swippet-domain.html?area=Washington%2... It works.
- troygoode 16y agoThanks for noticing the error in the URL, your link does allow me to navigate directly to DC now. Unfortunately if nobody is able to navigate properly to it, there won't be any content there to look at it anyway if you do manage to get there. (Of course the other cities aren't exactly content rich yet either, as other commentors have pointed out.)