Craigslist has been disrupted
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Craigslist has been disrupted
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Re: Craigslist has been disrupted
#2I guess, but I've never heard of any of the things disrupting it, other than AirBnB.
The apartment spam on Craigslist just means that it's harder to find an apartment, not that there is some other site to use.
Re: Craigslist has been disrupted
#3Good enough has been Craigslist biggest strength. You sure can innovate your self out of a good product, It does not always mean improvement. Disruption..I don't think so, competition yes. I'm pretty sure the use of disruption is getting diluted...... For the website It's not getting worse, that's a decent accomplishment for a website that's been around for such a long time.
When Craigslist is dead and gone, then I think we can have a informed decision about Craigslist disrupted status.(Wait! Just checked.....still lots of postings)
Re: Craigslist has been disrupted
#4Housing and Jobs are probably 90% of Craigslist traffic (and 100% of revenue?).
AirBnB is not even trying to be a replacement for Craigslist's housing section (and it isn't). It's a replacement for Hotels.com
Indeed/SimplyHired are nothing more than modern day Monster.com/Dice.com.
I also wouldn't take that Quantcast estimated chart at face value. It could easily be that even the trend is wrong and Craigslist is doing better than ever.
Re: Craigslist has been disrupted
#5"I don't think Craig's a bad guy, but he's harvesting $50M a year into his pockets and not improving the site."
Pretty sure Craig Newmark is a nonprofit sort of guy with perfunctory role in the company. Blame Jim Buckmaster for Craigslist's refusal to evolve.
Re: Craigslist has been disrupted
#6I wonder how much of this disruption can be attributed to the removal of the erotic ads section. You can see a major slowing of momentum around the time they were taken down (May '09). I mean that was an area without any major competition and which I'm sure accounted for TONS of traffic.
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#7I am actually really glad Craigslist doesn't try to Buzz or #Dickbar itself and doesn't have those obnoxious social buttons/plugins all over the place. Newmark just wants to maintain a useful simple site. That's why Craigslist will be around forever, he doesn't spring unwelcome surprises on his userbase.
Also Craigslist probably gets used more heavily when the economy isn't doing so well. I'm not sure his magical line graph is as predictive as he imagines.
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#8>"I don't think Craig's a bad guy, but he's harvesting $50M a year into his pockets and not improving the site"
Not sure about the definition of "improving the site" here. I'm thankful to CL for not building gratuitous UI, or half assed "social" element, or "tweet this post to your social graph". Instead they work on improving the content by fighting certain types of abuse, having the founder do customer support and keeping the site working under the huge traffic it's handling.
I don't remember seeing CL down or even slow - no cutesy "site is down" pages - which says to me they're improving the site constantly, just not in the way that gets the hypeosphere excited.
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#9>"I don't think Craig's a bad guy, but he's harvesting $50M a year into his pockets and not improving the site. In ten years I think Craigslist will be an afterthought..."
If I were pocketing $50M per year for 10 years, I wouldn't give a damn if the site wasn't around at the end.
Re: Craigslist has been disrupted
#10Craigslist is the most UNBROKEN site on the web. It works flawlessly. Just yesterday I bought a cell phone from a local guy on Craigslist.
Scrolled down the page. Found the phone I wanted in the city I wanted for the price I wanted. Called him, met at a restaurant, paid for the phone, and we went on our way.
It was perfect.