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Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water
- MaysonL 15y agoUI fail - slow.
- devinfoley 15y agoWhich part specifically? I work on the project so any feedback I get is very valuable!
- mr_justin 15y agoThe part where you enter something to search for and it takes over 10 seconds for a result.
- devinfoley 15y agoThanks. That's not normal. We're definitely experiencing some slowdown from the traffic spike.
- capstone 15y agoHow does this blow Craigslist out of the water? As far as I can tell, it's the same old craigslist, questionably skinned, and with less options.
- devinfoley 15y agoWell, you can search across multiple locations/categories and there's saved searches and favorites.
- atacrawl 15y agoI think the headline is about four words too long.
- networkjester 15y agoFive words. ;)
- rwwmike 15y agoWait, which for words? Does craiggers just blow craigslist? Is it a vile headline when you remove the 4 words? Just curious. ;)
- networkjester 15y agoLegal dispute in 3... 2... 1... Haven't other's tried implementing new UIs for craigslist, only to be "shot down" by craigslist? [things like this were mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963561 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963561 ]
- networkjester 15y agoIn other news: it looks like flippity.com changed to working as an eBay search engine (found after following link in what I referenced above), interesting.
- helpmehelpyou 15y agoSo what's your point? Imagine if facebook or google had let the fear of a potential legal dispute stop them.
- robertgkidd 15y agoCraig Newmark himself laid out what concerns he might (or might not) have. Craiggers architecture meets Craigs standard of not putting a load on CL to host the data. Here's Craig's own quote on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-anyone-built-any-products-on-top-of-Craigslist-data http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-anyone-built-any-products-on-... Craig Newmark, customer service rep & founder 33 votes by Rodney Pearce, June Lin, Ludi Rehak, (more) "Actually, we take issue with only services which consume a lot of bandwidth, it's that simple."
- kirpekar 15y agoVile
- nicksergeant 15y agoI'm having a hard time seeing how this is better than Craigslist itself. Also, need to lose the animations - they're useless eye candy and it just slows down the UI.
- helpmehelpyou 15y agoPerhaps you could elaborate a bit on how it's not better than craigslist. Also, twitter, kayak, hipmunk etc. all take advantage of UI animations quite similar to the ones used here. A bit more complex than simply changing the color of a car ;)
- quanticle 15y agoIt certainly is an impressive UI, but the search function doesn't seem to be as effective as the one on Craigslist itself. For example, when I searched for 1 bedroom apartments on Craigslist in my area, I got 18 results, all of them for 1 bedroom apartments. When I used Craiggers, I got 9 results, half of them for 2 bedroom apartments. I don't know if this is a limitation of the API or of Craiggers' search, but either way, a good UI is useless without good data to back it up. Finally, I don't think Craigslist's UI is actually that terrible. I think its rather refreshing to have a site that simply displays information as a set of HTML links, rather than trying to stuff an entire application into the browser. It doesn't seem to be a popular way of making things these days, but I wish more web sites would try it.