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Sure -- but lets be clear about what this is a function of; this is misplaced incentives. There's nothing (yet) incentivizing a clean, efficient, pleasant web,
by jrm4 3y ago
Sure -- but lets be clear about what this is a function of; this is misplaced incentives.
There's nothing (yet) incentivizing a clean, efficient, pleasant web, owing to the fact that scale of the stuff the web connects to/makes available doesn't have any meaningful "competition" whatsoever.
- ISL 3y agoClean and efficient web (for consumers) isn't terribly profitable. Craigslist could make a lot more money, especially in the short-term, with different design and monetization choices.
- jrm4 3y agoUgh, did y'all downvoters get triggered when I said "no competition?" Sorry, your downvotes don't make this not true. Look, why does google no longer have the title of "simple, no frills search?" It's very very difficult, pretty much impossible for any new competitor that provides a useful, good, quality web-related service, to not be crowded out by incumbents and anti-competitive behavior. It's technically trivially easy to make a new/better Uber, Doordash, Google, whatever. But they're going to throw everything at you to make you not happen.