I was on the fence about Craigslist's minimalism. Then I tried Flippity's search of Craigslist's data (the service that Craigslist just killed for no reason) an

I was on the fence about Craigslist's minimalism. Then I tried Flippity's search of Craigslist's data (the service that Craigslist just killed for no reason) and realized that an equivalent Craigslist search would have took me about ten times as long, manually searching through all the ads. This isn't simplicity. This isn't minimalism. This is Ludditism, backed by a monopoly position. How many millions of hours are wasted every day because of Newmark's anti-market fetish? And Jim and Craig have made it abundantly clear in interviews that they don't care about user feedback, so I don't expect anything to change.