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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 prob
by 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 agoI 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 agoMaybe 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 agomarketplace 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.