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by wlindner 14y ago
I've seen the UI improvements, but haven't needed to use them so I don't know how good they are. If those work: Awesome! In a way, that's a victory. If CL incorporates the best things about 3rd party sites into their own site, I think that'
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by wlindner 14y ago
That's a very good point. 1,500 unique visitors is tiny. Hell, I will probably get more visitors to this single blog post. Forgoing everything about CL blocking me and such, I never did enough to promote the site. I started the site in 2011
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by wlindner 14y ago
Thanks for letting me know, I implemented a quick fix for mobile devices. Unfortunately I don't have a WP8 to test it on, but it shouldn't require scrolling left and right anymore to read the text.
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by wlindner 14y ago
Yeah, that's a good idea. Craigslist basically blocked any connections from Google App Engine to their domain. But, if you ran the site from your own computer, they wouldn't really have any way to block it.
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by wlindner 14y ago
Yeah! It almost seems like a source of pride for them... What were you working on that got squashed by Craigslist?
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by wlindner 14y ago
Sorry about that, it's just http://trycourier.com , I fixed the link. Thanks!
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Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com(williamlindner.com)
29 points by wlindner 14y ago|25 comments
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Show HN: Visualizing Big Data in Realtime on Mobile Devices(zoomdata.com)
2 points by wlindner 14y ago|0 comments
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by wlindner 14y ago
Makes sense, there's no one answer to my question, because there are so many variables involved. So, it will take trying them out and of course it will depend on my needs. It may even make sense to do server side on some parts of the site
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by wlindner 14y ago
This is great. I've been considering moving to a client side MVC as opposed to relying on GAE. I started messing around with Backbone.js and I really like it. What are the downsides of client side MVC as opposed to server? Is it easy to