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Craiglist has a great UX for a classifieds board: location > type of listing > listings by date. It may look butt ugly, but it is as close to a functionally ef

by rprasad 14y ago

Craiglist has a great UX for a classifieds board: location > type of listing > listings by date. It may look butt ugly, but it is as close to a functionally efficient classifieds board as you can get. Craigslist isn't trying to be anything more than that.

bencpeters 14y ago
For many classified ads, this is true. However, for most people "location" being defined on a city-wide (or for some rural areas) state-wide basis is nowhere near an effective location filter for apartment/housing. Most people I know have a fairly short list of neighborhoods/locations that they want to live, and it's a huge pain to find those postings in craigslist's interface. This doesn't mean that PadMapper is right, from a legal standpoint, but I think it's fair to say that craigslist's UX is terrible, for apartment/house searches (where small variations in location matter a LOT) at least.