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Yeah, tell that to Craigslist, who nuked their RSS feeds recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310
by KirillPanov 6y ago
Yeah, tell that to Craigslist, who nuked their RSS feeds recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310
- smsm42 6y agoNon-rhetoric question - why would one need a feed on craigslist? I've ever used craigslist only in two ways: 1) trying to sell something (about 20% success rate) 2) trying to buy something for cheap. In both cases, RSS feed serves to useful function - as a seller, I only need to publish one post, as a buyer, I need to find who sells cheap used bikes, call/email them and be done with it, I'm not going to monitor cheap used bike market for years to come. Is there some important craigslist use case I am missing here?
- terinjokes 6y agoIf you're looking to buy something locally, you could subscribe to an RSS feed of the search results. If an item became available, it would appear in your feed.
- Acrobatic_Road 6y agoI do exactly this + piping the feed title to notify-send to get a desktop notification.
- KirillPanov 6y agoI've used craigslist many times to (a) find an apartment to rent or (b) find a used car to buy. In both cases I was prepared to wait a month or perhaps more until what I wanted came along. Who wants to spend a month clicking reload on a webpage every half hour? I also used to watch a feed of all the used stuff for sale within 20 miles of me (I'm in a remote area), with a bunch of filters to remove stuff I didn't care about. Quite often I came across bargains on stuff I wasn't actively looking for. Like unique handmade high-quality furniture. The usage mode for buying on craigslist is nothing like the usage mode for buying on amazon. It is not instant gratification.