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One of the beautiful things about craigslist is that it is a holdover from the early days of the web. It is a snapshot of what we all once were. I hope they ne
by bprater 18y ago
One of the beautiful things about craigslist is that it is a holdover from the early days of the web. It is a snapshot of what we all once were.
I hope they never give in to the temptation to redesign.
(And it doesn't hurt that it is blazing fast.)
- mhb 18y agoAnd here's one of the hideous things. Maybe I don't understand how to do this, but there seems to be no way to search for something in all of, for example, Massachusetts instead of its separate geographic regions. If that's the way it is, it's ridiculous and if it's not obvious how to do a broader search, that's also ridiculous.
- akd 18y agoCraigslist deliberately forces you to interact within your local sphere. It may suck if you're on the border of two of their regions, but it helps them keep a local focus. They could easily implement nationwide search.
- derefr 18y agoI'm surprised no one's built an app that just spiders the craigslist database and allows you to query it in more interesting ways than the craigslist developers could think of.
- Shooter 18y agoThere have been NUMEROUS apps that provide beefed-up searching (multi-city,etc.) for CraigsList. Most get in trouble with CL because they're violating CL's TOS. Craig and Company want you on their site, not on an aggregation site that sucks their listings...so they shut aggregators and scrapers down pretty quickly. OLX is, if I recall correctly, one of the many companies that has already gotten in trouble for doing this.
- mhb 18y agoI don't see what goal of theirs is facilitated by having a crippled search function. Someone in a border is going to look in the neighboring regions anyway - it just makes it painful for them and leaves the door open for a more sensible competitor.
- ndrake 18y ago<search term> site:<city>.craigslist.org on Google seems to work pretty well.