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craigslist is dead, the news should be how marketplace quietly disrupted craigslist and the power of Meta integrating any product. if you're a B2C company and

craigslist is dead, the news should be how marketplace quietly disrupted craigslist and the power of Meta integrating any product. if you're a B2C company and Meta decides to compete with you, you have no chance.

devbent 2y ago
Facebook marketplace is a better experience. CL had a miserable mobile experience up until a few years ago, no good mobile app, and spam has always been a problem on the platform.
- zucked 2y ago
  I logged in just to respond to this - I could not disagree more. FB's faceted search is truly awful. I regularly search for specific items on FB and get totally different results if I run the same query multiple times. Sometimes, I'll even get "suggested" items that 100% match my search query and have been posted for weeks but still don't appear in my original search. I loathe using FBMP, but it has been slowly absorbing all the CL traffic. On one hand, I like that CL charges for high value items now (ex: Cars) because it means you're getting better quality, but on the other hand it has absolutely hastened people's abandonment of CL for FBMP.
  - switchbak 2y ago
    Maybe I have a different perspective, but I find both platforms to be absolutely awful. I had to find a car with CL years ago ... uggh, what a shite platform. Now - FB is decidedly worse though. These walled gardens, I swear the spartan simplicity of Usenet was better than these.
- Spastche 2y ago
  marketplace seems horrible, I'm trying to find a number of used digital pianos and there's a ton of old listings (like 8+ week old listings) meanwhile craigslist is just kinda ugly and any real spam is obvious and easy to ignore or filter out.
nitwit005 2y ago
Strange that a dead website generates hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.
niemandhier 2y ago
That is more or like the perfect case to apply the Sherman Antitrust Act. Legal practice is slow to adapt but we will see more and more cases against gate keepers and monopolists.
MisterBastahrd 2y ago
I have no problem with them dying, since they're as responsible for the elimination of funding of quality journalism in the US as much as any other entity on the planet. Not that they planned for it to happen, but it's still largely their fault.
- Duwensatzaj 2y ago
  Ebay took out a share of classified revenue as well. Quick search said classified ads were 40% to 70% of revenue.

devbent 2y ago

Facebook marketplace is a better experience. CL had a miserable mobile experience up until a few years ago, no good mobile app, and spam has always been a problem on the platform.

zucked 2y ago
I logged in just to respond to this - I could not disagree more. FB's faceted search is truly awful. I regularly search for specific items on FB and get totally different results if I run the same query multiple times. Sometimes, I'll even get "suggested" items that 100% match my search query and have been posted for weeks but still don't appear in my original search. I loathe using FBMP, but it has been slowly absorbing all the CL traffic. On one hand, I like that CL charges for high value items now (ex: Cars) because it means you're getting better quality, but on the other hand it has absolutely hastened people's abandonment of CL for FBMP.
- switchbak 2y ago
  Maybe I have a different perspective, but I find both platforms to be absolutely awful. I had to find a car with CL years ago ... uggh, what a shite platform. Now - FB is decidedly worse though. These walled gardens, I swear the spartan simplicity of Usenet was better than these.
Spastche 2y ago
marketplace seems horrible, I'm trying to find a number of used digital pianos and there's a ton of old listings (like 8+ week old listings) meanwhile craigslist is just kinda ugly and any real spam is obvious and easy to ignore or filter out.

nitwit005 2y ago

Strange that a dead website generates hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.

niemandhier 2y ago

That is more or like the perfect case to apply the Sherman Antitrust Act. Legal practice is slow to adapt but we will see more and more cases against gate keepers and monopolists.

MisterBastahrd 2y ago

I have no problem with them dying, since they're as responsible for the elimination of funding of quality journalism in the US as much as any other entity on the planet. Not that they planned for it to happen, but it's still largely their fault.

Duwensatzaj 2y ago
Ebay took out a share of classified revenue as well. Quick search said classified ads were 40% to 70% of revenue.